Former Liverpool footballer Andrea Dossena was held by police for three hours after his three-year-old son tried to take a book from Harrods, his agent claims.
The 33-year-old Italian was arrested at the Knightsbridge store on Tuesday (April 7) on suspicion of shoplifting.
But the defender’s agent Gary Sloane, said the footballer and his wife, 31, were held after their child picked up a book without them knowing.
Speaking to the Liverpool Echo, the agent said: “It was a family shopping trip to Harrods and their little boy was carrying his own bag.
“He put a kids’ book in there and it set the security alarms off as they left the shop.
“Andrea and his wife didn’t have any ID with them so they had to go to the police station just to verify who they were.”
A Met Police spokesman said: “Police arrested a 33-year-old male and a 31-year-old woman on April 7 on suspicion of shoplifting at Harrods.
“They were taken to a west London police station.
"Both the man and woman have been bailed to a date in late April, pending further enquiries.”
Dossena signed for Liverpool in 2008, before leaving for Italian club Napoli. He went on to play from Palermo and Sunderland before joining Leyton Orient in November last year.
