Judge appears baffled that police force, which admits search of Raya Meredith was unlawful and unjustified, nevertheless claims it was ‘objectively necessary’
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New South Wales police made an “outrageous” argument that it was “objectively necessary” to search a woman’s genital area during a strip-search at a music festival, despite admitting the search was unlawful, a court has heard.
The police force admitted in court documents that its July 2018 strip-search of Raya Meredith at Splendour in the Grass – which discovered nothing illegal – was unlawful and unjustified.
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