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‘Atkinson had CPR for 35 minutes’
- Updated: August 24, 2016
Hospital doctors battled in vain for 35 minutes to save former Aston Villa striker Dalian Atkinson after he was shot with a police Taser, a coroner has heard.
Medics at the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford, Shropshire, carried out CPR for more than half an hour after officers shot him with a Taser in the early hours of August 15 in the street where grew up in Telford.
Paramedics were called by police after the incident involving the 48-year-old former footballer and immediately began working to save him.
At an inquest in Shrewsbury on Wednesday, coroner’s officer Julie Hartridge said West Mercia Police officers were called at 1.39am to a “report of concern for safety” in Meadow Road, in the Trench area of Telford.
She told coroner John Ellery: “Shortly after being given Taser, Dalian Atkinson became unresponsive.
“At hospital, following 35 minutes of CPR, he …
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