An innocent man ordered into a police car and taken to a station to be strip-searched said he "felt abused" after being told to expose himself.
Anthony Owens, 40, was walking along Oriel Road, Bootle, towards his sister's house on the evening of May 21, 2018, when an unmarked police car suddenly pulled to a stop next to him and two pain-clothes officers jumped out. According to Mr Owens, the officer asked him "have you ever been strip-searched?", to which he replied he had not, and was told: "Well, you're about to be."
Mr Owens was taken to Marsh Lane Police Station where he was told by an officer "stand there and do exactly what I tell you to do, very slowly". He was ordered to remove his clothing and then asked to move body parts as officers searched for Class A drugs.
