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Story summary
- PC Rachel Comotto and PC Stephen Smith were acquitted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm in May 2025.
- The officers tasered 92-year-old Donald Burgess after he brandished a dinner knife, also using a baton and pepper spray.
- Comotto posted on Facebook, “We all know what happens in care homes,” hours after the incident.
- Burgess died three weeks later from Covid-19 and cardiac arrest, prompting a possible coroner-inquest reopening.
