TESCO was forced to pay out £3,000 in compensation to a teenager yesterday after it was accused of carrying out a racially motivated stop and search on the mixed-race boy.

The star student known as A was stopped by a shopping assistant and taken to the back of a Maida Vale Tesco store for a search in November 2013. He was not originally told why he had been stopped and was subjected to a search by two adults, including the store’s duty manager.

A said the search left him vulnerable and scared of going into shops for fear of being profiled again.