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March 24, 2015updated 27 Mar 2015 5:02pm

Cleared Sun leader writer Fergus Shanahan reflects on three ‘barren, painful and miserable’ years

By William Turvill

When Sun executive editor Fergus Shanahan was arrested more than three years ago, he says he was made to feel like “one of the most dangerous men in the country” by the four cars full of police officers who descended on his family home in Felsted, Essex, shortly after 6am. (Picture: Press Association)

He was ordered out of his bed, told to “hurry up and get dressed” and taken to Romford police station where he faced a day of questioning before returning to his “ransacked” home and his “terrified” wife and two daughters at around 9pm.

Shanahan, now 60, then had to wait another year before being questioned again, and – after repeatedly being re-bailed – was charged in April 2013. His trial was originally set for January 2014, and was then postponed until June, and then “literally at the last minute, even as we were getting ready to go to court,” postponed once more to January this year.

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