Overview

• Pc Victoria Wray apologised for multiple failings and said she believed she was doing the right thing when she strip-searched the 15-year-old in December 2020.
• The panel heard the search took place without an appropriate adult and required the girl to expose intimate parts of her body while she was menstruating.
• Wray, trainee detective constable Kristina Linge and Pc Rafal Szmydynski all deny gross misconduct amid allegations the search was unjustified, disproportionate and degrading.
• Evidence showed the majority of stops by Wray involved Black or Asian individuals, raising concerns about unconscious racial bias in her decisions.
• Child Q will not testify due to psychological trauma and protests outside Stoke Newington Police Station have followed Scotland Yard’s earlier apology.