Footage of police tasering 95-year-old aged care resident ‘confronting’
It is claimed Clare Nowland, who has dementia, was holding a serrated steak knife.
Footage of police tasering a frail 95-year-old grandmother in an aged care facility has been described as “confronting” as outrage over the incident grows.
Clare Nowland is receiving end-of-life care in Cooma Hospital, surrounded by her family, after she was injured when tasered on Wednesday morning.
Staff at Yallambee Lodge, in Cooma, NSW, called the police after the 43kg woman, who uses a walking frame, took a serrated steak knife from the kitchen into a small treatment room.
Police tried to have Mrs Nowland drop the knife before a senior constable used his taser, Assistant Commissioner Peter Cotter said on Friday.
