Force says BBC yarn was inaccurate and has damaged community relations with the policePolice maintain criticised the BBC for publishing a yarn that claimed a spelling error led to a 10-year-old Muslim boy being investigated over terror allegations,and warned the press of the impact it could maintain on community relations.
On Wednesday, the BBC reported that a boy who attends a Lancashire primary school was interviewed by police after he had written that he lived in a terrorist house”. His family claimed this was a spelling mistake and he meant to say he lived in a “terraced house”.
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Source: theguardian.com