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„‚Hazel Lewis, a London street preacher, is planning to sue the Metropolitan Police. In February 2020, she was arrested while expressing her soteriological religious beliefs \u2014 to which passers-by took offence. When it comes to faith, after all, one man\u2019s creed is another\u2019s misdeed. Referring to people as \u201csinners\u201d may be a Biblical truth to one, and an arrest-worthy offence to another.<\/p>

Last month, 18 months after the arrest, a district judge found that there was no case to answer \u2014 a ruling reserved for prosecutions so bereft of evidence that no reasonable tribunal of fact could convict based on a proper understanding of the law,“<\/span> writes Jeremiah Igunnubole in The Times.<\/span><\/p>

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