‘It was humiliating’: police apologise for handcuffing undressed student in raid

Male officers in Bristol protests investigation burst into 21-year-old woman's bedroom but will not face disciplinary action

Avon and Somerset police have apologised to a young woman who was handcuffed in her bedroom by a group of male police officers while partially undressed.

Katie McGoran, who had attended a kill the bill" demonstration in Bristol in March, claims she was left traumatised and humiliated" when police officers pretending to be postal workers tricked their way into her shared student house and burst into her bedroom. The Observer reported at the time that the 21-year-old photography student, who has no police record, was put in handcuffs for more than 20 minutes by the four male officers, while wearing a short dressing gown. She says she was not released even though she became increasingly distressed and suffered repeated panic attacks.