Woman cleared over ‘coconut’ placard calls on IOPC to investigate Met

Marieha Hussain said the Met should have to answer for the harm done to her and to the right to peaceful protest. Photograph: Aaron Chown/PA

The teacher acquitted of a racially aggravated public order offence after she held a placard depicting Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman as coconuts at a pro-Palestine protest has called on the police watchdog to investigate the Metropolitan police over its handling of the case.

Marieha Hussain, who was found not guilty at Westminster magistrates court earlier this month, claims the Met and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) pursued a politicised case against her without justification after she attended the march in November last year.