Staff at a Maida Vale branch of Tesco detained the boy (Picture: Google Street View)

Tesco has paid £3,000 to a boy after he brought a race discrimination case against the supermarket.

The mixed race child was stopped by staff who searched him in November 2013 in the back of the store.

Jedward-obsessed woman who had sex with two 14-year-old boys is jailed for just two yearsHe claimed he was left ‘scarred’ and the shop workers had acted in a ‘physical, high-handed manner’ when they grabbed his arm to take him into the back.

The boy was searched by a duty manager and shop assistant without being told why he was being detained at the store in Maida Vale.




He was eventually allowed to leave the branch when they found he hadn’t stolen anything.

Tesco paid compensation to a mixed-race boy (Picture: Rui Vieira/PA Wire)

The boy said: ‘The way Tesco treated me was unacceptable and for a while left me constantly unnerved whenever I was in a store. I think it is absolutely fantastic that we have been able to show them this is not acceptable and that they cannot get away with these kinds of actions anymore.’

Women tortured to death by couple who lured them with lonely hearts adsHis mother added: ‘My son was treated utterly appallingly. Doing nothing just wasn’t an option – there was no way that I could stomach Tesco getting away with how they treated my son because of his race.

‘Getting reparation, and recognition for how they had wronged my son, was “like getting blood out of a stone” but our efforts were worth it.’

His lawyer, Nick Webster, from Leigh Day, said: ‘It is unacceptable to treat somebody differently because of their race.

‘Our client was particularly upset by what he felt to be the physical, high-handed manner of Tesco’s conduct and has been left scarred by the incident.

‘Our client hopes that this case will encourage others, who have been subjected to this type of treatment, to have the confidence to speak out.’

A Tesco spokesman said: ‘Everyone is welcome at Tesco so we take any allegations of this nature extremely seriously.

‘As has already been disclosed, this person was stopped as the colleague believed they had been shoplifting. We have agreed to settle the case with no admission of liability.’