PSNI drugs raid on 'wrong house'

18 September 2012 Last updated at 11:02 ET

The police have apologised for battering down the front door of a house belonging to two 75-year-old pensioners during a search for drugs.

The officers broke into the property in Lurgan at about 10:00 BST on Thursday.

The couple's son, who did not want to be named, told BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show that his elderly mother had been "traumatised" by the incident.

He said the officers were instructed to search a house a short distance away but had read the address incorrectly.

The couple were not in the house at the time, but the man said his father was in his back garden when he heard "a terrible racket" and thought there had been a car crash at the front of his house.

When he went to investigate, he found that his front door had been battered down by up to six PSNI officers.

"They had stormed into the house and were in the hallway. The lead police officer then seemingly took a look at my father and, at that stage, I think they realised that they had made a mistake," their son said.

"They had been given the correct information but had read the street address or the street name incorrectly, and the address that they should have been at was about 300 yards away from my parents' house".

The man said he was "very annoyed" by the officers actions after they realised they had got the wrong house.

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PSNI drugs raid on 'wrong house'