OLD MAN TASERED, PEPPER SPRAYED AND BEATEN:

OLD MAN TASERED, PEPPER SPRAYED AND BEATEN: A 92-year-old care home resident in a wheelchair was sprayed in the face with synthetic pepper spray before being Tasered and hit with a baton by police officers. Police constable Stephen Smith emptied almost a full can of pepper spray into Donald Burgess’s face when he refused to drop an item of cutlery similar to a butter knife, Southwark Crown Court heard. Mr Burgess, who had one leg, was then Tasered by Police constable Rachel Comotto, police body-worn camera footage shown to jurors appeared to show. PC Smith, 51, denies two counts of assault by using Pava spray and a baton, and PC Comotto denies one charge of assault by discharging her Taser. “It ought to have been obvious by the fact he had one leg that this was a man who wasn’t going to be mobile. This was an elderly, vulnerable man who may not have understood what was going on. Rather than being met with understanding and sympathy, he was confronted by irritation and annoyance ... Source: Lord Bebo and friends