THE mother of a black man who died in 2014 after being tasered and bitten by a police dog says she suffered “disgusting” treatment by authorities after her son’s death. 

Germaine Phillips said she was left unable to trust the organisations responsible for delivering accountability – the police watchdog and coroners system – after her son Adrian McDonald died having come into contact with police. 

Mr McDonald, a 34-year-old father of two, died in the back of a police van in Newcastle under-Lyme, Staffordshire, after telling officers: “I can’t breathe.”