内容摘要：Yesterday, the court heard that Ms Patterson had struggled with bulimia since her teens and was prone to regularly binge eating and vomiting after meals.

Yesterday, the court heard that Ms Patterson had struggled with bulimia since her teens and was prone to regularly binge eating and vomiting after meals.

A schoolgirl was "demeaned" and "physically violated" when she was strip-searched at school by police while on her period.She was wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis, a misconduct hearing for the three Metropolitan Police officers involved has heard.

The girl, who was 15 at the time, will not being giving evidence at the three-week south-east London tribunal, "because of the psychological effects that this strip search has had on her", the panel heard.Det Con Kristina Linge, PC Victoria Wray and PC Rafal Szmydynski all deny gross misconduct over their treatment of the girl known as Child Q.All three officers were PCs at the time of the search which allegedly took place without an appropriate adult present in Hackney, east London on December 3 2020.

Outrage over Child Q's treatment led to protests outside Stoke Newington Police Station after a safeguarding review revealed she had arrived at school for a mock exam and was taken to the medical room to be strip-searched while teachers remained outside.On Tuesday Elliot Gold, for the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) which is bringing the case, said: "The search involved the removal of Child Q's clothing including her underwear, her bending over and, thus, the exposure of her intimate parts including, necessarily on the (IOPC) director general's case, her vagina and anus.

"Child Q was menstruating at the time, as she told the two officers who searched her, but they nevertheless proceeded with the search. It is not disputed that Child Q's sanitary pad was thereby exposed.

"The object was to search for cannabis. No cannabis was found."The Spanish police have said very little in public so far and there has been no official confirmation of the identity of the two victims.

Reporters with experience of investigations in Spain say that's not unusual and to be fair, police in Scotland rarely speak about ongoing inquiries into organised crime unless they absolutely have to.The Spanish will be seeking the assistance of Police Scotland to get intelligence on the background of the two men, and it's likely that Scottish detectives will be travelling to the Costa Del Sol at some point.

The UK's National Crime Agency has full-time staff in Spain who will be facilitating such co-operation.There is speculation that the shootings are linked to the ongoing gangland feud in central Scotland which has resulted in dozens of incidents, including alleged attempted murders, and more than 40 arrests.