Cop accused of care home attack says old man was holding a butter knife with ‘immensely tight grip’

A police officer who struck a 92-year-old amputee with his baton told a court that the pensioner was holding a butter knife with ‘an immensely tight grip.’ 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 untensil. PC Rachel Comotto, 36, allegedly assaulted Mr Burgess with her Taser while her Sussex colleague PC Stephen Smith, 51, struck him with his baton and used…