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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - MARCH 19: A woman holds a placard as demonstrators gather outside the BBC Broadcasting House ahead of a march to oppose racism, Islamophobia, antisemitism and fascism, and to express support for refugees as part of United Nations Anti-Racism Day in London, United Kingdom on March 19, 2022. The campaigners call for action to erradicate institutional racism in response to police strip-searching of Child Q and for all refugees to be welcome as over 3.3 million people have fled Ukraine since Russian attack began three weeks ago. (Photo by Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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A woman who was strip searched as a child at school has said she will ‘never feel normal again’ after two officers were sacked.

Child Q, who was 15 at the time, was strip-searched by female Met officers in 2020 after she was wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis at her east London school.

Later it emerged that she was also on her period, with the girl, who is now an adult, saying she felt ‘demeaned’.

A tribunal has since found the actions of two police officers involved amounted to gross misconduct, describing the incident as ‘unjustified and humiliating’.

Trainee Det Con Kristina Linge and PC Rafal Szmydynski were sacked, while PC Victoria Wray was given a final warning.

In a statement through her lawyers, Child Q said: ‘Someone walked into the school, where I was supposed to feel safe, took me away from the people who were supposed to protect me and stripped me naked, while on my period.

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‘I can’t go a single day without wanting to scream, shout, cry or just give up. I don’t know if I’m going to feel normal again.

‘But I do know this can’t happen to anyone, ever again.’

Child Q did not give evidence at the hearing due to the psychological damage of the strip search, but said she felt ‘demeaned and physically violated’.

Child Q’s mother said in a statement: ‘Professionals wrongly treated my daughter as an adult and as a criminal and she is a changed person as a result. Was it because of her skin? Her hair? Why her?

‘After waiting more than four years I have come every day to the gross misconduct hearing for answers and although I am relieved that two of the officers have been fired I believe that the Metropolitan Police still has a huge amount of work to do if they are to win back the confidence of Black Londoners.’

People outside Stoke Newington Police Station in London, over the treatment of a black 15-year-old schoolgirl who was strip-searched by police while on her period. The secondary school pupil - referred to as Child Q - has launched civil proceedings against the Metropolitan Police over the search by two female officers, without another adult present, in 2020. Three police officers have been investigated for misconduct by the Independent Office for Police Conduct, which is finalising its report. Scotland Yard has apologised and said the incident "should never have happened". Picture date: Friday March 18, 2022. PA Photo. See PA story SOCIAL Safeguarding. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire
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The officers involved had failed to acquire proper authorisation at sergeant level which went against the force’s policy.

The panel has heard that black schoolchildren were more likely to be treated as adults rather than their white peers.

But neither age or race were found to be a factor in the way the search was conducted.

Cdr Kevin Southworth said in a statement: ‘The experience of Child Q should never have happened and was truly regrettable.

‘We have sincerely apologised to Child Q since this incident happened.

‘Again, I am deeply sorry to Child Q and her family for the trauma that we caused her, and the damage this incident caused to the trust and confidence black communities across London have in our officers.’

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