Cop who tasered 92-year-old pensioner in care home says she treated him with ‘utmost respect’

A police officer who tasered a 92-year-old amputee has insisted he treated the pensioner with ‘utmost respect’. 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 a butter knife. PC Rachel Comotto, 35, allegedly assaulted Mr Burgess with her Taser while her Sussex colleague PC Stephen Smith, 51, struck him with his baton and used his Pava spray. Mr Burgess, was hospitalised after the…