Haywards Heath man searched in police hunt for ‘gunman’

Matthew Saward told the Middy that on Monday night he was stopped in Sussex Road by officers ‘in hunt for the gunman’.

Mr Saward, 39, who lives in Haywards Heath, said he was on the way home from work at about 11.30pm when it happened.

“I was being followed by a police car through the town,” he said.

“I thought it was a bit weird for them to be following me.

“They stopped and searched me on Sussex Road. There was about two or three police cars and an undercover police car. They were looking for a man with a gun.

“They told me to put my hands on the back of the car and then they handcuffed me and told me to stay calm.

“They searched my rucksack and told me they were doing a stop and search and then they let me go. I was so shaken up by it. There wasn’t anyone around. I was just going home from work.”