The police officer, aged 51, and PC Rachel Comotto are accused of using excessive force on Mr Burgess, who had one leg, at ...

The care home had called 999 after Mr Burgess, a single-leg amputee and wheelchair user, reportedly grabbed a knife and threatened to stab staff.

Pc Stephen Smith is accused of using excessive force on Donald Burgess during an incident at a care home in East Sussex in June 2022.

A 92-year-old care home resident in a wheelchair was sprayed in the face with synthetic pepper spray before being Tasered and ...

One-legged Donald Burgess was allegedly assaulted by PC Stephen Smith and PC Rachel Comotto at a care home in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, on 21 June 2022. Prosecutors are arguing the officers ...

Pc Stephen Smith and Pc Rachel Comotto are on trial at Southwark Crown Court charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm. Smith, 51, denies two counts of assault by using Pava spray and a ...

One-legged Donald Burgess was allegedly assaulted by PC Stephen Smith and PC Rachel Comotto, at the home in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, on June 21, 2022. Prosecutors claim the officers used ...

Sussex Police officer Pc Rachel Comotto is on trial at Southwark Crown Court (Lucy North/PA) A 92-year-old disabled man threatened to murder care home workers before he was allegedly assaulted by ...

PC Stephen Smith and PC Rachel Comotto are accused of assaulting Donald Burgess at Park Beck Residential Care Home in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex. The officers had been called to the residence ...

A court has heard two police officers pepper-spray and taser a 92-year-old amputee who died three weeks later in hospital. PC Stephen Smith and PC Rachel Comotto are accused of assaulting Donald ...