Woman claims police officer threatened her at Tom Jones gig

A pistillate has claimed she was pushed and threatened by an off-duty constabulary serviceman astatine a Tom Jones performance earlier helium flashed his badge to effort to debar being thrown out.

Natalie Wood, 32, said helium swore astatine her and tried to commencement a combat with her spouse astatine Monday's Cardiff Castle gig.

The lawsuit organiser said incidents were taken earnestly and it was committed to "a harmless and unafraid environment".

South Wales Police has referred it to its Professional Standards Department.

"We'd got our spot and we were conscionable chilling erstwhile (the enactment act) Far From Saints came on," said Ms Wood, from Risca, Caerphilly county.

"You've got radical brushing past you, squeezing through, which is fine... past I got shoved truthful hard I astir fell over.

"The adjacent happening I crook circular and this antheral and his spouse are some looking astatine me, truly smug.

"The woman came marching towards me, swearing astatine maine successful my face. They were drunk, truthful she was slurring and swearing.

"She turned astir and tapped her spouse connected the enarthrosis and says 'sort her out'".

Ms Wood said the brace past started verbally abusing her and the remainder of her radical and that the antheral past tried to commencement a combat with her partner, Owain, earlier the lawsuit stewards intervened.

"My spouse said to him 'you request to permission now. If you privation to deed maine past bash it, I'm not going to combat you'. They had to physically drawback him and propulsion him away," Ms Wood added.

"I deliberation they were going to footwear him retired astatine this point, but past helium pulls retired his constabulary badge."

Ms Wood described the officer's behaviour arsenic "mind-blowing", and called it an "abuse of power".

"The stewards, they were lone young lads, they didn't cognize what to do," she said.

"Everybody astir america was asking america if we were OK. They each witnessed it. Other radical were asking information to footwear them out."

According to Ms Wood, the serviceman and his spouse were past moved to different portion of the venue, but she claimed helium continued to taunt her and her group.

About 40 minutes later, she saw a ample radical of information moving done the assemblage earlier the serviceman and his spouse were removed from the venue.

"Everybody was cheering and helium was getting dragged out, smiling," she said.

She said she was told by stewards that helium had been "thrown retired for an altercation with idiosyncratic else".

Ms Wood said she has reported the incidental to South Wales Police and wants to spot the serviceman disciplined, describing him arsenic "not acceptable to beryllium a constabulary officer".

"He intelligibly thinks he's untouchable. He isn't connected duty. He isn't working. He has nary request to person his badge connected him," she said.

"His behaviour, careless of what your occupation is, is wholly unacceptable and despicable".

A spokesperson for Depot, the lawsuit organiser, said: "On Monday evening, members of the nationalist approached our information unit to study an ongoing incidental and successful enactment with our protocols, a antheral was fixed a verbal warning.

A abbreviated portion later, unit were alerted to different disturbance successful the assemblage involving the aforesaid idiosyncratic - and having already been fixed a warning, we made the determination to eject him from the premises.

"Incidents similar these are taken earnestly by our squad and we stay committed to maintaining a harmless and unafraid situation for everyone astatine our events."

In a statement, South Wales Police said: "We are alert of a societal media station pursuing a caller Tom Jones performance successful Cardiff.

"The substance has been referred to the Professional Standards Department".