Referring to the gardens shears, the officer described how he shouted at the girl to “put it down now”.
But, he said, he made the decision to fire the Taser within 10 seconds after shouting a further warning to her as she ran up some stairs.
“I was worried what her intentions were with the shears,” he said.
“She had seen the officers and picked the shears up. I was worried what she’d do with them.”
He said he felt “panicked”, was “unsure who was in the house” and where she was going with them.
Miss A, the girl’s mother, who gave evidence on Monday, claimed her daughter had hit her with the hammer before police arrived, but said she was a safe distance away from her when officers got there, and did not want her to be shot with a Taser.
