Officers found not guilty of assaulting 92-year-old amputee

Warning – this report has distressing images.

He was 92, had only one leg and used a wheelchair. When Donald Burgess wielded a serrated cutlery knife at his care home, staff called the police.

But within a minute and half of arriving, the two police officers who responded had sprayed him with synthetic pepper spray and discharged a taser. Mr Burgess died 22 days later of Covid. Today a jury at Southwark Crown Court acquitted Constables Stephen Smith and Rachel Comotto of assault.

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