Will Self furious over ‘paedophile’ police stop
The writer and journalist Will Self was stopped by police while out walking with his son because they suspected he was a paedophile, he has said. ● The 51-year-old, Booker Prize-shortlisted author, who also regularly appears on television, was enjoying a long walk with his 11-year-old when a squad car and a police van stopped him on a Yorkshire roadside. Self, author of Great Apes and Umbrella, was questioned about what he and the schoolboy were doing out walking together and his details were checked on the Police National Computer (PNC), he said. Self, an enthusiastic rambler, and his son set off in July from London to Whitby, north Yorkshire, on their walking holiday. “No Englishman enjoying a ramble with his son should face examination by police at the roadside on suspicion of being a sexual predator,” Self wrote in the Mail on Sunday.
The Guardian: Will Self: I was reported as 'suspected paedophile' when out with my son