Met Police officer cleared of gross misconduct after tasering 10-year-old girl

Pc Jonathan Broadhead leaves the misconduct hearing after being cleared over the tasering of a child (Gareth Fuller/PA)

A Metropolitan Police constable who tasered a 10-year-old girl brandishing garden shears has been cleared of gross misconduct by a disciplinary panel.

Pc Jonathan Broadhead fired his Taser at the girl twice within seconds of entering her home in south-west London on January 21 2021, after her mother called 999 when the child threatened her with a hammer and the shears.