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September 15, 2015updated 16 Sep 2015 1:10pm

Croydon Advertiser seeks judicial review of police harassment warning given to reporter who asked questions of con woman

By Dominic Ponsford

Publisher Local World is taking the police watchdog to court in a bid to overturn a written harassment warning which was issued to a reporter who put questions to a convicted con woman.

Croydon Advertiser chief reporter Gareth Davies and his publisher Local World are seeking a judicial review of a decision from the Independent Police Complaints Commission which in June rejected a complaint from him.

Three Met Police officers visited Davies at his offices on 31 March last year and issued him with a Police Information Notice warning him that if he contacted Neelam Desai again he could be arrested.

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