Police officers who Tasered a disabled 92-year-old in his care home after he prodded a woman with a butter knife may have contributed to his death, an inquest has heard.
Alarm bells sounded at the Park Beck Residential Care Home in East Sussex after one-legged dementia sufferer Donald Burgess flicked food at a worker on June 21, 2022.
A series of events that unfolded within 83 seconds of two police officers arriving would see the pensioner hospitalised, dying 22 days later from contracting Covid-19.
Police had been called to his seaside care home after reports Mr Burgess had refused to put down the
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