Mum Jamie Rogers is furious her 14-year-old son was confronted and searched by police in Tesco’s Trowbridge store after reporting a theft.

Kasey Rogers was buying lunch on his way to school when he tried to help by telling a staff member what he had seen at the store in County Way.

After paying for his lunch and visiting the toilets, he was shocked to find a police officer confronting him and asking if he had been stealing. A security guard closed the toilets to search cubicles.

The John of Gaunt pupil was escorted out by police and driven home to Paxcroft Mead. His mother was out, so police took him to school.

Miss Rogers, 29, found out what happened on January 16 when she got home that day and a neighbour said Kasey had been home in a police car.

She rang the school, where staff thought police had already told her what occurred.

Next, she went to Tesco, where the deputy manager and floor manager assured her Kasey had not tried to steal anything.

“I said to them is there anything on the CCTV to suggest Kasey had done anything wrong and three times they told me no," she said.

“My son is taught to do the right thing. They were completely in the wrong.

“I think he is more annoyed than anything and embarrassed because he was escorted out of Tesco by the police and brought home in front of our neighbours and then taken back to school in a police car.”

Miss Rogers said she and Kasey would not now shop at Tesco and had complained to the store and the police.

A Tesco spokesman said at no point had it made allegations against Kasey and added: “Our staff at the store followed the instructions of the local police, sharing CCTV footage with them at their request before assisting in the location of an individual they wanted to question.”

A police spokesman said they were called to a shoplifting incident at about 8.50am.

He said: “Officers carried out searches on two people to establish their potential involvement in the incident.

“A 19-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of theft. A 14-year-old boy, who was also in the store at the time of the attempted theft, was taken to his school by police officers.”