The courts could not tolerate regimes of private police forces, a judge warned yesterday when he awarded an elderly woman £10,000 damages for having been wrongfully arrested by Dunnes Stores security staff.
Judge James Carroll was told in the Circuit Civil Court yesterday that Ms Emily Kelly (76), of Willie Bermingham Place, Kilmainham Lane, Dublin, had been marched back to a check out centre in the company's Crumlin store on a mistaken suspicion of having not paid for a sack of potatoes.