Leandra Ashton posted distressing footage of her retired nurse mum being handcuffed by officers, when she wanted to take her dementia-stricken mother home so she could be looked after by loved ones

An ex-Coronation Street actress’ mum was arrested after trying to take her 97-year-old gran out of her care home before lockdown.

Leandra Ashton, who played Saskia Larson on the soap, shared agonising footage of her mum being handcuffed, while her dementia-stricken grandmother sat in the car during the incident in East Yorkshire on Tuesday.

Retried nurse Ylenia Angeli, 73, had not seen her dementia-stricken mother for nine months due to the coronavirus pandemic and wanted to care for her at home.

Humberside Police later confirmed it had withdrawn the arrest and allowed Ms Angeli to return home with her elderly mother after the heartbreaking scenes.

Leandra posted the distressing clip of her mum being packed into a police patrol car on Facebook, calling for relatives to be treated like ‘key workers’ to avoid such situations happening to anyone else.

The former actress and yoga teacher wrote how the the family had been trying for months to take her gran home, after growing frustrated with window visit-only policies.