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Two Metropolitan Police officers have been sacked for gross misconduct following a four-week tribunal examining the strip-search in a Hackney school in 2020

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A woman who was strip-searched by police when she was just 15 and forced to expose her intimate parts while on her period has said she does not know if she will ever “feel normal again”.

The black schoolgirl was inappropriately searched at a school in Hackney, east London, in 2020 after she was wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis.