2026-10-06 · BBC News
🔮 PC Stephen Smith and PC Rachel Comotto, who were both acquitted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm in May 2025, had been called to Park Beck care home in St Leonards-on-Sea after resident Donald Burgess threatened carers with a dinner knife.
Burgess, who had dementia, was hit with a baton, pepper sprayed and Tasered as he sat in his wheelchair in his bedroom in June 2022.
At a hearing at Sussex Police headquarters in Lewes, a panel decided there was "unjustified and excessive use of force" and gross misconduct had been proven for both officers. assertive
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