Disciplinary hearing date for Child Q strip-search officers still to be set

Gross misconduct case over December 2020 incident that could lead to Met sackings may not be heard until 2025

A date is still to be set for a disciplinary hearing that could result in three Metropolitan police officers being sacked for their alleged part in the strip-search of an innocent child in December 2020.

Child Q, 15, was strip-searched at her school in Hackney, east London, while menstruating, having been wrongly accused of possessing cannabis. It was an experience she found traumatising and which has been widely condemned.