A police officer who tasered a 92-year-old wheelchair user in a care home has admitted “it doesn’t look good” that she joked about the incident hours late on Facebook hours later, a misconduct hearing has heard.
Sussex Police officers Pc Stephen Smith and Pc Rachel Comotto are facing allegations of gross misconduct that they used inappropriate force against single-leg amputee Donald Burgess at Park Beck care home in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, in June 2022.