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The Scottish Government has introduced a new law against using hateful slurs
A pensioner has been left feeling very emotional after she was wrongly accused of breaking Scottish hate crime law and taken to the police station
Morag McDougall Brown, 74, said: "On Tuesday morning, two officers appeared at my door that I knew them from previous incidents where had been here. They said they were here to arrest me and when I asked why they couldn't tell me."They said they would need to take me to an interview room at a police station and all they could say was there has been an allegation
"I was unaware of what was happening to me I asked them what would happen if I didn't come? They said we'd need to handcuff you."
She later added: "I think it's awful because she could maybe do that tomorrow and I could be taken away again because they said that they can't interview me in my own home because of the new law.
"They had to take me to a police station where I was searched. I was read my rights. Then it was only in the interview room that they told me it was an allegation that my neighbour had made a complaint and said that I had called her that name."
