"It made me feel nervous," Ms Grahame said. "There were lines and lines of police and dogs ... I was surprised how intense it was." Deputy State Coroner Harriet Grahame said the presence of police and sniffer dogs at a recent rave made her feel "nervous". Credit:Yianni Aspradakis It came after a music festival patron, who cannot be identified, told the inquest she was left feeling "humiliated" by a police strip search despite nothing illicit being found. "You’re naked ... the way I was spoken to, [it was] like I'd done something wrong," the woman told Ms Grahame.

The woman said she had been strip-searched at two different festivals, one of which was Knockout Circuz at Sydney Olympic Park, the same festival at which 18-year-old Nathan Tran fatally overdosed on the party drug MDMA in December 2017. Loading The circumstances of his death and the deaths of Alex Ross-King, 19, Callum Brosnan, 19, Joshua Tam, 22, Joseph Pham, 23, and Diana Nguyen, 21, are being scrutinised by the inquest. The woman said she was walking into one of the events with her ticket in her hand when a police officer tapped her shoulder, telling her she had been indicated by a sniffer dog. "They made me walk through the crowd and everyone was staring at me," she said.

"They made me put my hands together ... I let go of my hands and they yelled at me." The woman said she was taken to a female officer who said, "tell me where the drugs are ... the dogs are never wrong, so tell me where the drugs are". "I was like, 'I don't have any drugs'," the woman said. "She was like, 'why do you look so nervous, what are you hiding?' I said, 'nothing, I've never been in a situation like this before'." "I had to take my top off and my bra, and I covered my boobs and she told me to put my hands up, and she told me to tell her where the drugs were.

Loading "She said 'if you don’t tell me where the drugs are I’m going to make this nice and slow. "She made me take my shorts off, and my underwear, and she made me squat and cough, and squat and cough, and squat and cough, and I had to turn around and squat and cough." The woman said the officer searched her bag and found her boyfriend's wallet, which was then given to another police officer. "She opened the door while I was still naked and handed the wallet to someone else then made me stand there for a bit," she said.

The festivalgoer said music festivals "used to be fun" but the high presence of police and security made it an intimidating experience that had caused some people she knew to consume illicit drugs before going into the event. Security guard Marko Petrovic, who told the inquest he had worked at several music festivals, said pill testing should be introduced to improve the safety of patrons. Festival security guard Marko Petrovic has told an inquest he believes pill testing will help the safety of patrons. Credit:Janie Barrett "I’ve seen it in action in the ACT [Australian Capital Territory] and no one died at the festival where they did pill testing," Mr Petrovic said of Groovin' the Moo, where the nation's first pill testing trials have been held. He said there was a greater police presence at Sydney festivals than there used to be, which made patrons anxious.

The woman, who was at the same festival at which Mr Tran fell fatally ill, said she saw him trip over a group of patrons and remain on the ground for a couple of minutes. She said he was picked up by security guards before being handed over to police, one of whom grabbed Mr Tran by the neck and punched him in the head. Barrister James Emmett, acting for the NSW Police Commissioner, put to the court that her memory wasn't accurate. "This is the truth," she said back. The inquest heard on Wednesday Mr Tran was behaving erratically and aggressively due to the effects of MDMA.