Police officers ‘assaulted 92-year-old amputee with Taser, baton and pepper spray’

A 92-year-old amputee died in hospital from Covid three weeks after police officers assaulted him with a Taser, baton and pepper spray at a care home, a court heard. Police were called to the Park Beck Residential Care Home in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, had called police 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…