Cops stick granny in man’s jail

A GRANNY suffered “a serious indignity” when police arrested her as a MAN and was forced to spend 10 hours in a male jail surrounded by leering inmates.

Fior Pichardo de Veloz’s shame was compounded when a judge threw out her lawsuit for negligence.

But an appeals court has now reinstated her claim against the jail doctor and nurse who insisted officers book in Pichardo ( above) as a man – even though a strip search had shown she was a woman.

A judge said: “Every reasonable prison officer and medical personnel would have known that wrongfully misclassifying a biological female as a male inmate and placing that female in the male population of a detention facility was unlawful.”

The decision means that she can now pursue for compo.

A lawyer for Pichardo, 62, in Miami, Florida, said “we are pleased” with the court’s decision.