Black schoolgirl Child Q strip-searched by Met officers suffered mental harm, hearing told

Girl’s lawyer tells police misconduct hearing that she felt ‘physically violated’ by incident at her London schoolA black schoolgirl suffered mental harm and felt “physically violated” when she was strip-searched at school by police, a misconduct hearing for three officers has been told.The girl, who was 15 at the time and has been known as Child Q, was strip-searched in December 2020 at her school in Hackney, east London, while menstruating, having been wrongly accused of possessing cannabis. Continue reading...

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