London – Police have dropped an investigation of a 10-year-old Muslim boy who mistakenly wrote that he lived in a “terrorist house” rather than a “terraced house” — a British term for row houses.
The boy’s school had notified authorities about his statement because of a law requiring schools to report any possible links to extremism.
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Lancashire Police said in a statement Wednesday that a police officer and a social worker visited the boy at his home in Accrington because of the misspelling.
Police said: “There were not thought to be any areas for concern and no further action was required by any agency.”
Police interviewed the boy and examined a computer at the family home. The family has demanded an apology from both the police and the school, the BBC said.
“They shouldn’t be putting a child through this,” the BBC quoted the boy’s cousin as saying. To protect the identity of the child, the BBC did not give names in its report.
“He’s now scared of writing, using his imagination,” the cousin was quoted as saying.