Settlement for family of ‘fireball’ Taser victim

The family of a man who died when he was turned into a human fireball after being shot by a police officer with a Taser while soaked in petrol have received an out-of-court financial settlement.

Andrew Pimlott, 32, had poured the fuel over himself when Pc Peter Hodgkinson fired the 50,000-volt weapon at him during a domestic incident in the back garden of his parents’ house on the evening of April 18, 2013.

Pc Hodgkinson and his colleague Pc David Beer had answered a 999 call from Mr Pimlott’s father, Kelvin, reporting his son was carrying a jerry can of petrol, may have a lighter and was breaching a restraining order imposed by magistrates to stay away.