My daught has been accused of shop lifting. She was hilding a couple a bottles of purfume in the same had as her hand bag and coat, she decided she did not want them and put them down in a different area of the store, but was stopped before leaving the store even though she had no goods on her person. She was frightened only being 16 and has adhd and started to run (still in the store) she was restrained by 2 security men, she struggled and had up to 7 people holding her including a policeman and it was very painful, before they let go and she calmed down. The two bottles of perfume were recovered from where she left them. The policeman was asked to look in her bag but found nothing. She has been sent a demand for £137. I rang the Manager ( one of the big department stores). The store security are saying that she put one bottle back after being caught and another was found in her bag on leaving the store. My daughters friends back up her story that this was a blatant lie. he also told me no one had ever made any complaints before, which I find hard to believe. My question is ehat are her rights. No goods were found on her ( even though they are saying tere were). she had not actually left the store when she was stopped. it does not look like the police will procecute, but the store is trying to make a civel suit.