BREAKING NEWS Police officers who Tasered and pepper-sprayed 92-year-old amputee in care home are found not guilty of assault
Two police officers who Tasered and pepper-sprayed a 92-year-old amputee in a care home have been found not guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
PC Stephen Smith, 51, and PC Rachel Comotto, 36, were both cleared of charges relating to Donald Burgess, a single-leg amputee and wheelchair user, after he was restrained at Park Beck care home in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex.
The jury at Southwark Crown Court returned a verdict just hours after being sent out for deliberations by a judge earlier today.
PC Smith has been cleared of two charges relating to the discharge of Pava spray and a baton, while PC Comotto was cleared of a charge related to discharging her Taser.
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