Police apology to tasered dancer, 80

AN 80-year-old white ex-ballet dancer mistaken for a black suspect in his 30s and tasered in his kitchen has finally received a public apology from police chiefs.

roy Morton was woken on december 28 by officers armed with submachine guns who smashed through his front door, tasered him, pinned him to the floor and handcuffed him after allegedly mixing up his address.

Chief Superintendent philip ryan, from Scotland Yard’s specialist firearms command, said: ‘I am deeply sorry that this terrible error occurred and I apologise wholeheartedly to Mr Morton.’ He said a team is investigating what happened but Mr Morton, from Cricklewood, north-west london, said the apology was superficial and he is ‘still very shaken’.

He said: ‘I don’t go outside I just stay indoors now with the curtains shut. I feel like an old man for the first time in my life.’