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Moment Pensioner Pepper Sprayed And Tasered By Police

A 92-year-old wheelchair-bound care home resident was sprayed in the face with pepper spray before being Tasered and hit with a baton by police officers, a jury has been told. PC Stephen Smith emptied almost a full can of pepper spray into Donald Burgess’s face when he refused to stop holding a small, serrated cutlery knife, Southwark Crown Court heard. Burgess, who had one leg, was then Tasered by PC Rachel Comotto, police body-worn camera footage shows. He was taken to hospital after the incident. He contracted Covid and died 22 days later. 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. They are not being held responsible for Burgess’ death. Burgess was a resident at a care home in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex when staff called police in June 2022 after they failed to persuade him to hand over the knife, which had a specially adapted handle. Paul Jarvis KC, prosecuting, told jurors the officers made no attempt to talk to staff, and instead approached Burgess and attempted to interact with him. Instead of trying to calm the situation down, they inflamed it, and the use of force was not justified and was unlawful, Jarvis said. Jurors were told there was nobody within arm’s reach of Burgess at the time and that it was clear he was not easily able to move. “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,” Jarvis said. “This was an elderly, vulnerable man who may not have understood what was going on”, he said. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_... Find us on Facebook:   / timesandsundaytimes   Find us on X: https://x.com/thetimes Find us on Instagram:   / thetimes   #news #uk #crime #police