David Oldfield
14 Mar 2014 · Coroner Melanie Williamson · West Yorkshire (East)
The coroner's concerns
1. tasering
“tasering can, in certain circumstances, cause serious injury and/or death to a person”
2. tasering of a person by firearms officers
“tasering of a person by firearms officers should only take place in appropriate and justifiable circumstances, and a failure to do so unnecessarily increases the risk of a loss of life”
3. preceding events of tasering
“events immediately preceding the tasering of the Deceased occurred in the manner stated by one or more of the attending firearms officers”
4. circumstances preceding tasering
“precisely what were the circumstances which preceded the act of tasering the Deceased, whether such was appropriate and justifiable in all the circumstances and, if not, whether similar circumstances could arise in the future”