I AM a primary school teacher from London who visited Lancaster at the weekend to relax and spend some time with my boyfriend.

Like of lot of people I can't stand the commercial, beer guzzling cattle markets that pass as nightclubs these days so I went to the Warehouse which I know from experience is safe, hassle free and plays good music.

I was in the club on Friday evening and it was actually pretty quiet when suddenly there was a commotion and I was surrounded by 10 people in scary uniforms shouting at me to put my hands on my head. Glasses were knocked to the floor, there was screaming and it was very frightening. These men wore masks and all you could see was their eyes.

I started to get a bit panicky and I started to try to explain that I suffer from asthma. I was one of the first people to be escorted outside the club and they refused to let me get my inhaler from my bag which was in the cloakroom. I was having difficulty breathing but they insisted I face a video camera and give them my details. At this point I was crying and I felt very traumatised being treated like like a serious criminal. I had to wait outside for two hours before I was given back my personal belongings.

Some people, men and women, were stripped searched very unsympathetically and this incident dominated the whole bank holiday weekend leaving a lot of people feeling very drained and shaken.

The police tactics were terrifying and heavy-handed. They could have done what they needed to do using about three policemen not 50 covered from head to toe in body armour. They say drugs were found inside but you could go into any club or pub these days and find drugs - why smash your way into one club and treat everyone in there as a drug dealer? They police actually looked very disappointed by what they found inside. It was a disgraceful way to treat ordinary members of the public totally innocent of any crime.

Naomi Chapel London