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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Joe Hadden

Tearful officer denies being ‘trigger happy’, after tasering amputee, 92

A police officer told a court she is “not a trigger happy officer” as she defended firing her Taser at a 92-year-old amputee in his care home.

Breaking down in tears, Pc Rachel Comotto said she believed using the device was the safest way to “protect” Donald Burgess from being struck again with a baton by her colleague, who had also pepper sprayed the man.

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