AN INNOCENT couple from Dundee who blundered into a police sting operation in Balgay Park and were jailed for a week are pursuing Tayside Police and the Procurator Fiscal Service for wrongful arrest and wrongful detention.

Robert Stewart (63) and his wife Elizabeth (56), of Baldovie Place, were pounced on by armed officers earlier this year and charged with attempted extortion. Both were refused bail and remanded in custody for a week.

Later, senior fiscal Alan Kempton announced that Crown counsel had instructed that no further proceedings be taken.

Yesterday, it was disclosed that the couple had consulted their respective solicitors who said claims had been intimated to Tayside Police and the fiscal.

Crown Office, the fiscal service and Tayside Police are carrying out their own investigations.

In June, the man police were trying to trap, Paul Langridge (35), was ordered to be detained for an initial six months after a sheriff determined he was suffering from a mental illness at the time.

He had threatened to reveal information relating to sexual misconduct by his victim, a Dundee businessman, and threatened to shoot him and his business partner if £75,000 was not left in a holdall in Balgay Park.

When Mr and Mrs Stewart came across the holdall they were surrounded by armed officers and arrested.