Manchester Evening News
June 3, 2014
This is the moment a bride was arrested on her wedding night.
The image was snapped outside the Hilton Hotel Deansgate after staff called police to complain of an altercation involving the bride and groom.
Police arrested the newly-weds after a row broke out with reception staff as the couple tried to check in.
The image on Deansgate was taken minutes after police arrived by a bystander travelling in a taxi.
The witness told the M.E.N: “The bride had a cigarette in her mouth. I couldn’t see the groom.
“It looked like the police were trying to calm her down.”
Officers were called to the plush multi-storey hotel on Deansgate shortly before 11.30pm on Saturday night.
Staff at the concierge then called the hotel’s security to assist as the row developed.
A fight then broke involving the security guards and the couple.
During the scuffle, the 25-year-old groom, dressed in his wedding suit, allegedly attacked one the security guards cutting his face in the process.
The bride, who was still in her dress, is then accused of shouting racist abuse at the guards, who were Asian.
The groom was arrested on suspicion of a section 47 assault with his 29-year-old wife being held on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order offence.
They were taken to a local police station where they were kept in separate cells, just a few metres apart, overnight.
They remain in custody for questioning about the allegations.
Nick Adderley, Chief Superintendent of Greater Manchester Police’s North Division has backed his officers in making the shock arrest.
He said: “Police officers were asked attend and we did so.
“We then obviously had to pain over the decision whether it was right thing to do to arrest.
“But it absolutely was and I support the officers who made that decision.
“We can’t have a situation where, regardless of what ceremony they have been to, people are being allegedly being assaulted and racially abused.”