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Tristan Kirk

Met officers accused of cutting woman’s clothes off in ‘unjustified’ strip search

A general view of New Scotland Yard, headquarters of the Metropolitan Police (Nick Ansell/PA)

(Picture: PA Archive)

Two Met Police officers are facing disciplinary proceedings over claims a female detainee’s clothes were cut off with scissors in an “unjustified” strip-search witnessed by male officers.

Sergeant Dru Hussey and a PC are accused of carrying out the intrusive search “without adequate reason or justification” in a cell at Lewisham police station on May 9, 2020.

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