Street preacher Olu Ilesanmi was offered £2,500 from the Metropolitan Police in July, in relation to his false arrest, imprisonment and unlawful detention in February.
Olu has handed in a petition to the Home Office, signed by over 40,000 people, calling for the government, the police and London Mayor to do more to protect Christian street preachers and freedom of speech.
In February, a video showing the arrest of street preacher Olu, 64, was watched by millions. Officers were shown forcibly handcuffing him, claiming that he was breaching the peace and had made ‘Islamophobic comments.’
