Police confiscate children’s Mother’s Day daffodils

A POLICE officer took a bunch of daffodils from two young sisters after they picked them for their grandmother on Mother’s Day.

Rosemary, 10, and her younger sister Emily, five, were upset when the officer ordered them to hand over the 27 daffodils they had picked from a verge in Berryhill Park in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, on Sunday.

The girls had been on their way to visit their grandmother with their father, David Taylor, 31, when they asked if they could take some of the flowers.

Mr Taylor later released a video of the moment they were told they would not be able to keep them.

In the two-minute clip, the carpenter can be heard explaining to the officer that the girls are picking flowers for Mother’s Day. When the officer claimed Mr Taylor has “committed a criminal offence”, he replied: “Have I really? Picking flowers off of public land?”

Mr Taylor later said: “I respect the police and the law but I feel like it could have been dealt with a bit better, with some common sense.”

He added that he would rather have paid a fine so his daughters could have kept the daffodils.

Nottinghamshire Police confirmed the officer confiscated the flowers from the girls at council-maintained verge and took them to a local care home.

It is against the law to pick flowers growing in council parks or on council-maintained roundabouts or verges.