A gardener was arrested by armed police for "carrying a knife" while walking home with his gardening tools from the allotment.

Samuel Rowe, 35, from Chorlton, was detained, kept in a cell and cautioned by cops after they accused him of carrying a 'large dagger' last month.

He had just tended to his allotment vegetable patch and was trimming the hedges outside his home with a sickle when armed police swooped on July 3. Samuel had his Japanese gardening trowel, a sickle and a fruit harvesting tool confiscated from him before being taken to a police station.

He was then held in cell for more than seven hours before he was released by police when he accepted a caution for possession of an offensive weapon. The theatre manager said he was left terrified when officers armed with guns turned u

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