Innocent Briton arrested and detained for 16 hours after bungling DVLA handed him someone else's ban

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Innocent Briton arrested and detained for 16 hours after bungling DVLA handed him someone else's ban

A 47-year-old father was arrested, endured 16 hours locked in a police cell, then was forced off the road for four months after a clerical error wrongly recorded him as a banned driver. Andrew Lees, an IT consultant from Sale, Greater Manchester, was arrested while driving his wife's Kia near their home when police checks incorrectly flagged that he was disqualified. The driving offences that triggered the ban were…