Met police settle out of court with retired dancer shot with Taser

Roy Morton was 80 when he was stunned, restrained and arrested in bungled raid at his home in 2021

Scotland Yard has settled out of court with a retired ballet dancer who sued the force after he was shot with a Taser weapon in his own home in a bungled dawn raid.

Roy Morton, who has a pacemaker and lives alone, was stunned, restrained and arrested by firearms officers who forced entry into his home in Cricklewood, north-west London on 28 December 2021.