Lancashire police threatened to Taser suicidal teenager, court told

Blackpool social workers were in a ‘fruitless’ search to find the girl a children’s home placement at the time. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

Lancashire police threatened to shoot with a Taser a suicidal 16-year-old girl on a motorway bridge and then accused her of wasting police time, a court has heard.

The girl, identified as HT, had “highly complex needs” and was living in an unregistered private children’s home at the time, where staff referred to her as a “wild animal”.