A 61-year-old man is suing Wandsworth police after officers allegedly threw him to the ground, breaking his arm, during a raid on a Roehampton club where he was drinking.

David Dickinson, of Hayward Gardens, Putney, said his arm was left hanging "like a piece of meat" after six officers pushed him off his bar stool on to the floor in the former conservative club in Treville Street.

He had been enjoying a drink with his partner downstairs in the club when eight police vans turned up and 30 officers, armed with riot shields and batons, burst into the building on November 23. The police had received reports of drug dealing in the club.

Mr Dickinson, who has been drinking at the club for 30 years, said: "Six of them came in and just smashed me to the floor. They were all on top of me.

"They went to prop me up and my arm was hanging like a piece of meat. I could pull the bottom half of my arm from the top. They said they were looking for drugs but that had nothing to do with me."

He said a group of younger people were on the top floor of the club that night.

Police have charged two people with possession to supply crack cocaine after recovering 25 rocks of crack, with a street value of £500.

Mr Dickinson was taken to Kingston Hospital where he stayed for three days.

He was searched by police in the ambulance on the way there, but they found nothing on him.

The exhibition company manager was only able to return to work on February 4 - more than two months after the incident.

He said: "I don't think my arm will ever be right now. I can't even pick up a kettle of water.

"It was ridiculous. They could have just come in and said, stay where you are and we'll search you."

Wandsworth police said they could not comment because of Mr Dickinson's pending legal action.