direct to your inboxGreater Manchester Police has apologised and paid out £100,000 to an autistic man Tasered multiple times in the street.Dad-of-two Michael Gilchrist, 60, who has Asperger's and bi-polar disorder, was distressed and pacing up and down near his home in Wythenshawe when the incident happened in 2014.His hands were bloodied after he cut them breaking his window.Two officers responded to the scene and described Mr Gilchrist as being 'aggressive and dangerous'.He was Tasered ten times and twice subjected to CS spray during efforts to detain him.PC Samuel Schofield - who discharged his Taser for 72 seconds - told a civil court last year he felt 'genuine fear' that Mr Gilchrist may have attacked someone due to the blood on his.
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