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10/23/2008: "Pensioner sues police over damage to her signed picture of Hitler"

A pensioner has lost a battle for compensation from the police over allegations that they damaged her signed photograph of Adolf Hitler, it was revealed today.

Dorothy Phillips, 77, from Clandown, near Bath, took Avon and Somerset Police to court three times over claims about the ruined photo, which they seized during an investigation connected to her son.

Mrs Phillips valued the photo at £10,000 and believes it faded while it was held at Bath police station as evidence.

[ If they deliberately left in in bright sunlight it would fade. At least she got it back. I had a picture of Hitler taken in a raid too - but it was only of novelty value due to the way it was framed. The police never returned it. What a pain in the ass it must have been for the woman to go through all that legal process. ]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1079707/Pensioner-sues-police-damage-signed-picture-Hitler.html