Black woman who sued Heathrow for £1 million after being 'strip searched' has race discrimination claim thrown out A black woman who attempted to sue Heathrow Airport has had her case thrown out after claiming that she was strip-searched “because of her race”.
The tribunal heard that Ms Brown, who was then working as a Delivery Project Manager at Heathrow, was asked to step aside for a body scan by Ms Monfries after activating the alarm.
Veleta Brown alleged that she had been “violated” when security officer Sorien Monfries asked her to step aside for a “private search” in October 2022.
If the archway identifies a “zone of concern”, the individual is required to step to one side and asked to consent to a search which involves being patted down over their clothing and being scanned with a hand-held metal detector.
On the day of the incident, she had been on the way to a meeting with a contractor in a secure airside area of the airport which required her to pass through security – a process that included passing through an archway scanner.
