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officer. Eiseman-Renyard and one other were dressed as zombies as part of a "Queer
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based on intelligence that the group intended to disrupt the wedding. The claimants argued that they had been arrested on no valid preventive basis. The Court dismissed the claim as inadmissible due to ill-founded beliefs.
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due to the large number of monarchists on the streets supporting the royal wedding. The claimants were all later released without charge after the wedding had finished.
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