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 school

A 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.