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Pc Stephen Smith, 50, and Pc Rachel Comotto, 34, denied charges of assault occasioning actual bodily harm in connection to their use of force against pensioner Donald Burgess.
Police were called to Park Beck care home in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, last June after reports an elderly man was threatening staff with a knife.
One-legged dementia sufferer Donald Burgess, 93, was found in his room at a care home holding a knife, with officers using pepper-spray, a baton and then a taser to disarm him
THE FAMILY of a one-legged 93-year-old dementia sufferer who died after he was tasered in his care home have slammed the police.
Two officers were called to Park Beck care home in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, in June after reports that Donald Burgess, 93, was threatening staff with a knife.