POLICE raided an innocent teenager’s Birmingham home wrongly suspecting that she was a rioter.

Aaliyah Longmore was mistakenly identified as a looter at Carphone Warehouse in the city centre at the height of the disorder on August 9.

Officers executed a warrant at the 16 year-old’s home in Kings Norton at 6am on Tuesday October 4 after being tipped off that she had appeared in CCTV images by two separate sources.

Aaliyah’s mum Paris Tinina said that it was one of her daughter’s teachers at St Thomas Aquinas Catholic School in Kings Norton who had wrongly identified her from her school prom photograph.

Yet the youngster has been a model pupil at the school and was featured in the school prospectus.

Ms Tinina complained to headteacher Jim Foley about Aaliyah’s arrest.

But Mr Foley said that, as far has he knew, it was not one of his teachers who wrongly identified Aaliyah, although, he added, that he “would be happy to investigate where the evidence came from”.

Aaliyah was with her dad in Sheffield at the time of the raid.

And she attended a South Yorkshire police station the following day where she was questioned by West Midland officers who travelled to Sheffield to meet her.

They arrested her on suspicion of burglary and released her on police bail, but contacted her before she was due to answer bail on Tuesday to say that she was no longer a suspect in the case.

Ms Tinina, a 39 year-old support worker, said the accusations against her daughter were “outrageous”.

She said: “Eight officers searched our home. All the neighbours saw the police cars in the street.

“This has obviously caused a huge amount of distress for Aaliyah, who had nothing to do with the disturbances.