Sinel Loveday, from Newark, is lodging complaints with both the Independent Office for Police Conduct and Nottinghamshire Police over officers’ conduct during arrest

A grandmother has accused Nottinghamshire Police of excessive force after 14 officers were called to her arrest for a minor domestic incident.

Sinel Loveday, who weighs less than eight stone, was put to the ground and pinned down by six officers as more police arrived on the scene, video of the incident shows.

She is in the process of lodging complaints with Nottinghamshire Police and the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) alleging excessive force, false arrest and imprisonment and challenging the caution she accepted while unrepresented at a police station.

“I’ve been shaking with anger, then a proper emotional wreck,“ said Sinel, who admitted to use foul language but never resisting.

“One of the people videoing does a head count and there are 14 officers there at one point, six cars, two riot vans, an undercover car, which is disgusting.

“They dispatched the whole police force for a woman weighing under eight stone who had pointed at her mother.”

Police responded to a domestic disturbance on Lilac Close, Newark, after Sinel and her mother had fallen out after both having a drink.

Sinel, who has mental health issues, said she had her wrist grabbed by a police officer inside the property as she pointed at her mother and demanded of her ‘do you want me to be arrested or these to go?’

What followed, Sinel, family members present, and independent witnesses describe as a gross over-reaction with as many as 14 police officers attending.

Videos show Sinel being frogmarched towards a police waiting van. There is a sudden shout that she is free of the handcuff and she is put to the ground with six officers restraining her. In the melee her trousers partly fall down.

Placed in leg restraints, she is dragged to a waiting police van.

Sinel later went to hospital and was diagnosed with concussion. Her injuries included extensive bruising to her arms, one of which resulted in a haematoma, as well as severe bruising to shoulder blades, back, legs and pelvic region.

I feel that I have been the victim of people who are supposed to be there to protect you. I have been a victim all my life, well no longer,” said Sinel.

“I was worried that my mental health would deteriorate as a result, but now I am going to use that to empower me.

“I am not going to be complicit in a wrongdoing. This was police brutality. They breached my human rights, used excessive force, failed to protect my dignity, showed no compassion, and falsely detained me.

“I want an apology.”

Nottinghamshire Police said: “Officers were called to Lilac Close on August 3 over reports of a domestic incident. A woman was arrested for breach of the peace and assault on an emergency worker.

“No formal complaint has been made to Nottinghamshire Police’s Professional Standards Directorate.

“We will be making contact to see if they wish to report a complaint and it will be fully investigated.”