Robyn Travis boot, full of copies of his books, when police conducted the search
- Credit: Robyn Travis
A successful Hackney author is speaking out against stop and search after he was left in limbo awaiting trial for eight months on charges that were eventually dropped.
Robyn Travis believes on April 15 last year, when police did a U-turn to pull him over, it was motivated by racial profiling.
He had just overtaken another vehicle on the road - when it was safe to do so, he says, although the Met Police dispute this - and caught the eye of a police officer driving in the opposite direction.