A HOUSEWIFE whose home was searched by police after a supermarket blunder has been told she has little chance of successfully sueing the store. Solicitors informed Lynn Pierce it would be unlikely she would win her case in court because police realised their mistake and "de-arrested" her. Speaking from her home in Valley, Anglesey, the 51-year-old said: "Quite frankly I would like to take Tesco to the cleaners for the upset and humiliation they caused me." Mrs Pierce was arrested after going to the supermarket giant's Holyhead store in March to buy flowers to put on the grave of her recently deceased mother. She placed her scarf in her handbag. But because it was similar in colour to blouses on sale in the supermarket, staff watching the CCTV system mistakenly thought she had stolen a blouse. Two days later a constable and policewoman came to the house and arrested Mrs Pierce. She claims they searched her house from top to bottom, and even scoured the dustbin, while neighbours looked on in amazement. She says the store discovered her address through a loyalty card. When the officers returned to Tesco to examine the tape they realised a mistake had been made and within an hour returned to offer profuse apologies. Mrs Pierce complained to the store and was given £50 and a bunch of flowers. She was later paid £750 compensation. A spokesman said the supermarket acted in good faith and had made a gesture of goodwill "for any embarrassment and inconvenience caused". Mrs Pierce said: "For a giant which makes profits of £1.6bn, I don't think £800 is enough for what I went through. "I'm still on anti-depressants and what upset me most of all was the police searching a drawer which contained my late mother's belongings. "What Tesco paid is a drop in the ocean to them. "What happened is a nightmare that I will take a long time to forget." | 
