Protests are planned across Britain in solidarity with a Black schoolgirl who was strip-searched by police while on her period after wrongly being accused of cannabis possession.
The teenager, who was 15 years old at the time, was subjected to a “traumatic” search by Metropolitan Police officers at the end of 2020 while attending school without another adult present, and in the knowledge that she was menstruating, a safeguarding review published on Monday concluded.
