Teenager locked up all weekend after mix up

Bromley

A teenager was kept in custody over the weekend after court workers made an astonishing blunder. The 17-year-old, who cannot be named, was mixed up with an aggressive defendant held in a neighbouring cell at Bromley Magistrates’ Court in south London. The youth was arrested on Saturday 30 May for breaching bail conditions when he was found in a car without an adult from his family. Courts do not sit on Sundays and he was kept in police custody until…

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