Officers were ‘annoyed’ when they used Taser, baton and spray on 91-year-old in care home

Two police officers accused of assaulting a 92-year-old amputee with a Taser, baton and pepper spray were ‘annoyed’ when the pensioner refused to do as he was told, 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 a butter knife. PC Rachel Comotto, 36, assaulted Mr Burgess with her Taser while her Sussex colleague PC Stephen Smith, 51, struck him with…

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