Taking advantage of the fact that, in anti-racism legislation, the burden of proof has shifted toward the defendant, a gang of gypsies falsely accused a British schoolteacher of racial harassment.

Mrs Hampson found herself involved in a clash with a family of travellers who had illegally established themselves on green-belt land and had blocked her way home one day, you might have expected the grandmother to receive a decent hearing from the authorities.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/10747065/Gipsy-attack-widow-finally-wins-back-her-good-name.html

She was eventually acquitted, but not before her life was ruined.

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