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Pensioner loses compensation bid after claiming police damaged her signed photo of Hitler during raid on house

A pensioner has lost a battle for compensation from the police over allegations that they damaged her signed photograph of Adolf Hitler, it was revealed today.

Dorothy Phillips, 77, from Clandown, near Bath, took Avon and Somerset Police to court three times over claims the photo, which they seized during an investigation connected to her son.

Mrs Phillips valued the photo at £10,000 and claims it faded while it was held at Bath police station as evidence.

During the search of her house in November 2006 officers confiscated the photograph along with some Romanov cufflinks, flags and books on SS members...
Read entire article at Daily Mail (UK)