Pair arrested by armed police at Brighton school released without charge

Sussex Police officers, including some armed, arrested a man and a teenage boy in the car park of Bevendean Primary School on Wednesday morning (July 17) following reports of a motocross vehicle being stolen in Brighton at 2.30am, said police.

A spokesman said: “The owner of the bike reported the theft to police at 6.38am of the same day, saying that he had been threatened with a hammer and a knife when he attempted to retrieve the bike from a van in the Stanmer Park area, where he thought the bike had been taken to.