Thursday 4 August 2022 03:13 PM Police officers are investigated for manslaughter over death of one-legged care ... trends now

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Two police officers are being investigated for the manslaughter of a dementia sufferer with one leg who died after he was Tasered, hit with a baton and pepper sprayed in his care home.

Police were called to a care home in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, on the afternoon of June 21 following reports that a wheelchair-bound elderly man was threatening staff with a knife.

When two officers arrived they found Donald Burgess, 93, a resident at the care home who suffered from advanced dementia, holding a knife.

After engaging with him briefly one of the officers pepper sprayed him and then used his baton on him while the second officer Tasered him.