Two police officers have been charged with causing actual bodily harm after a 93-year-old, one-legged dementia sufferer died following a distressing incident at a care home.
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Donald Burgess, 93, was sitting in his wheelchair at Park Beck care home in ST LEONARDS-ON-SEA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex when police were called after reports of him threatening staff with a knife. Upon arrival, officers pepper sprayed Burgess and hit him with a baton before tasering him when he failed to drop the knife.