Police raided a woman’s home and took her daily cancer medication as “evidence” – because her son was suspected of graffitiing a toilet in Asda.
Samantha Trist was left without the vital drugs for eight days, and has only been able to start taking them again after getting a fresh prescription. Humberside Police have refused to give her original pills back.
Officers arrested her son, who is also her primary carer, on 20 June outside their house in Grimsby. They then proceeded to ransack the property, said Samantha, upending boxes of personal possessions and seizing items including her Letrozole tablets. Samantha had been told to take the medication daily after her breast cancer surgery.
