Woman tells Sheku Bayoh inquiry of 'nightmare' experience during police search
dailyrecord.co.ukA woman has told the Sheku Bayoh inquiry of her “traumatic nightmare experience” as she and her family were made to vacate their house by police officers who told them it was being treated as a crime scene.Saadia Rashid said police told her they did not need a warrant to search the property and she was left feeling she had no choice but to leave.
Mr Bayoh, 31, a father-of-two, died after he was restrained on the ground by six police officers in Kirkcaldy, Fife, on May 3 2015.The inquiry is investigating the circumstances of his death and whether race was a factor.
Mrs Rashid told the inquiry on Wednesday that two officers initially arrived at her mother’s house, where she was staying, at around 8am on Sunday May 3 and told her they were looking for her brother, and they left when she said he was not there.She said that around an hour later, a number of uniformed officers came to the house along with one in a suit who told her the family needed to vacate the house as officers were looking for evidence and had to search the house.
The witness said no explanation was given as to why officers needed to search the property.Angela Grahame KC, lead counsel to the inquiry, asked: “What was your response?” Mrs Rashid replied: “I asked for a warrant.
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