Two police officers have been found not guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm after tasering and pepper-spraying a 92-year-old man - but both will face gross misconduct proceedings, Sussex Police has said. Donald Burgess was also hit with a baton and died in hospital 22 days after the incident at a care home. Prosecutor Paul Jarvis KC told the trial that the two officers were not responsible for his Covid death at 93. PCs Stephen Smith and Rachel Comotto had denied assault and using

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