A manslaughter investigation has been launched after a 93-year-old disabled man was pepper sprayed, hit with a baton then Tasered by police at a care home.
Donald Burgess, who was in a wheelchair and had one leg, died three weeks after the attack. He was brandishing a knife and threatening staff when cops disarmed then handcuffed him.
He was taken to hospital after the incident at a home in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, for medical treatment and stayed in hospital, but died three weeks later on July 13. When the police arrived, they were shown by care home staff into a room where the man, who also was living with dementia, was holding a knife.
