Top NSW Police officers covered up the Tasering of 95-year-old great-grandmother Clare Nowland by an officer, deleting crucial details from a public statement about the incident in a Cooma nursing home
.under freedom of information laws reveal the original draft media release sent for approval on the day the Tasering occurred contained detailed information about what happened at Yallambee Lodge in the early hours of May 17.The draft media release said Nowland was holding a knife when officers arrived at the nursing home and, when Nowland moved towards the police officers, an officer Tasered her. The grandmother, who had dementia, died a week later in hospital.
That approved statement was the first release sent by police to media on May 17, 4.41pm, saying the critical incident had been declared. It said a 95-year-old had “sustained injuries during an interaction with police at an aged care facility in the state’s south today”. “It was important that the family were informed of the situation in a factual manner before we went public on it, and I think that’s very necessary, and I’m sure that family appreciates that now,” she said.
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