Brighouse man was Tasered then shot at four times by police

Jan 10 2009 by Neil Atkinson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Internal inquiry after man is Tasered and fired at four times by police

POLICE marksmen fired four shots at a Brighouse man in his home, it emerged last night.

Firearms officers had also hit 44-year-old Bartholomew “Baz” Buckley with a Taser before shooting him early yesterday.

Details of the dramatic minutes inside Mr Buckley’s house on the Whinney Hill Park estate were revealed last night by investigators from the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).

They also revealed that a sword had been recovered from the house.

Mr Buckley, an unemployed father of three girls, is in Huddersfield Royal Infirmary with wounds to his torso and arm.

He had emergency surgery yesterday afternoon as the inquiry into the shooting was stepped up.