Anne Brokenbrow, a 104-year-old woman has revealed her wish to be arrested despite never committing a crime and the police seem happy to oblige. Her stunned care home staff who asked residents to fill in a form asking for their wishes.
Hers read; “My wish is… to be arrested. I am 104 and I have never been on the wrong side of the law.” Local policing teams in Stoke Bishop were very happy to grant her wish and she is due to be taken into custody for the first time ever next week.
She is a resident at Stokeleigh Care Home in Stoke Bishop, Bristol and has dementia. The home is one of five in the north of the city that is participating in the Wishing Washing Line initiative, run by elderly people’s charity Alive Activities.
She is a former secretary who worked at James Roberts & Son Manufacturers in Bristol. The paper slips are attached to a ‘washing line’ at nearby Coop stores, Anne’s wish was among the first to be pegged to the line at the Co-op in Bishopston, in Bristol.
The idea is that shoppers will stop to look at the wishes and if they think they can grant one then they can contact the elderly person behind it. The Wishing Washing Line project launched in Bristol on March 1 having helped thousands of elderly people in Essex.