Cop ‘either had to taser 92-year-old or do nothing’

A police officer had to use of a taser against a 92-year-old amputee because the only other option was to ‘do nothing,’ a court heard. Police were called to the Park Beck Residential Care Home in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, after Donald Burgess prodded a worker in the stomach with the utensil. PC Rachel Comotto, 36, used the taser on Mr Burgess while her Sussex colleague PC Stephen Smith, 51, struck him with his baton and used a Pava spray…