A student walking home from church was mauled by police dogs and filmed on an officer’s mobile phone as he was pinned to the floor, yards from his Phipps Bridge home.

Outraged Samuel Nilamoah, 29, demanded answers from Merton police at a public meeting on the estate, last Wednesday, as he explained how he had been left permanently scarred.

The international relations student had been walking to his Illingworth Close home, shortly after the triple stabbing on Tuesday, June 15, when he was set on by officers who, he claims, failed to identify themselves.

Mr Nilamoah said: "I was finally taken to hospital but the police did not even come with me. I just cannot understand how they can be allowed to do this.

"Whoever was on duty did not identify themselves. Any person would have run for their life in that situation.

"One of them took his phone out of his pocket and started filming me. I felt like he was trying to provoke me on camera to get evidence."

He has since raised the incident with Mitcham and Morden MP Siobhain McDonagh and has claimed the officers involved tried to persuade ambulance paramedics he did not need to be taken to hospital.

Chief Inspector Martin Lawrence of Merton police said during the meeting: "I do not want to speculate about this in a public meeting, that would be wrong.

"But I know on the night in question things were tense and a section 60 order was in place, giving officers permission to stop and search."

He said if any officers had acted incorrectly, it needed to be investigated.

As demands for improved lighting and increased policing appeared to fall on deaf ears at the meeting, Mitcham and Morden MP Siobhain McDonagh appealed for residents to keep up the fight for action.

Promising to take the matter up with Merton police’s new borough commander, Chief Superintendent Dick Wolfenden, she said: "You must not let us get away. This situation is unacceptable and you need to keep complaining."

A spokesman for Merton Priory Homes, the estate’s landlord that controls 9,000 properties across Merton and 620 in the estate, said improving lighting was a top priority.

However, while a meeting with Phipps Bridge residents would take place within a month she said, just £1.25m was earmarked for improvements across its estates borough-wide.