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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Melissa Sigodo

Dad of man who was Tasered by police and died 'never thought this would happen to me'

A former civil servant whose son was Tasered by police and died says that he “never thought” such a tragedy would “happen to him.”

Oladeji Omishore was believed to be suffering a mental health crisis when he was Tasered multiple times by Met Police before plunging into the River Thames.

His father Alfred Omishore, who previously worked for the Ministry of Defence and then Home Office as a senior advisor in the immigration and visa office, says that the horror his family experienced could "happen to anybody."

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