Christian street preacher, 64-year-old, Oluwole Ilesanmi has been offered the money in exemplary damages from the Metropolitan Police in relation to his false arrest, imprisonment and unlawful detention.
On February 23rd, Pastor Oluwole was preaching outside Southgate Underground station. A member of the public, Mrs Ambrosine Shitrit, saw a tall hooded man squaring up to a street preacher. Thinking that the preacher was about to be assaulted, she pulled over and started filming with her phone.
Two police officers shortly arrived in response to a 999 call claiming that the preacher had been “Islamophobic”. The hooded man, who had identified himself as a Muslim, left the immediate vicinity and the police began asking the preacher to leave the area for supposedly “breaching the peace.”
The video went viral online, shows Pastor Oluwole explaining his freedom to continue preaching to the officers, who arrest him, handcuffing him and taking his Bible.
Pastor Oluwole was driven five miles away from the scene, beyond the area he could use his Oyster card, and left with no means to pay for his ticket home. Police initially denied that this had happened; later changing their story after evidence backed the pastor’s claim.
Motivated by the desire not to see other street preachers treated the way he was, Pastor Oluwole authorised the Christian Legal Centre to write a…
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