{"id":107131,"date":"2025-05-16T20:02:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T20:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/107131\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T20:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T20:02:13","slug":"woman-arrested-after-distressing-dead-of-night-door-knocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/107131\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested after distressing dead-of-night door knocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Home owners who answered the door in the early hours were asked for money<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2_police-stock.jpg\" alt=\"Police stock\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Police stock image<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A woman has been arrested by Avon and Somerset Police officers investigating a series of distressing door knocks in the middle of the night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The door knocks happened in Bristol and <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/south-gloucestershire\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">South Gloucestershire<\/a> in the early hours of the morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Police said a woman had been asking people for money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Incidents were reported in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/mangotsfield\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Mangotsfield<\/a>, Hillfields and <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/fishponds\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Fishponds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Issuing an update, police said a woman had now been <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/crime\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">arrested<\/a>. She was handed a Community Protection Warning and was recalled to prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A spokesperson for <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/avon-and-somerset-constabulary\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Avon and Somerset Police<\/a> said: &#8220;\u201cA woman was arrested last night by officers investigating a series of incidents in which people in the Mangotsfield, Fishponds and Hillfields areas have been approached at home in the early hours of the morning and asked for money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cThe woman was handed a Community Protection Warning (CPW) and recalled to prison.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A CPW is a written warning issued by police as a first step to address and prevent anti-social behaviour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">If anti-social behaviour continues, then a Community Protection Notice, which comes with a specific timeframe and a bigger range of consequences, may be issued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The door knocks led to a <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/news\/bristol-news\/distressing-demands-money-homes-middle-10182565\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">number of social media posts<\/a> warning others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">One resident told BristolLive: &#8220;It&#8217;s very dangerous for older people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">One of the posts warned vulnerable residents: &#8220;Stay safe and don&#8217;t answer the door, but report to the police.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">One person commented: &#8220;Imagine all the elderly and vulnerable people&#8217;s doors [that] they have knocked on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The police force said at the time it recognised the distress caused by these incidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Home owners who answered the door in the early hours were asked for moneyPolice stock image A woman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[9312,381,748,188,393,12716,4884,47168,10299,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-107131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-avon-and-somerset-constabulary","9":"tag-bristol","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-fishponds","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-mangotsfield","16":"tag-south-gloucestershire","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114519300327121361","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}