The 33-year-old senior constable attached to Monaro Police District has been suspended from duty with pay as investigations into the Tasering of Clare Nowland continue.
The senior constable who used a Taser on 95-year-old dementia patient Clare Nowland has been suspended from duty with pay as investigations continue.
Nowland, who weighs 43 kilograms, was left in a critical condition when she was hit by the Taser in the early hours of Wednesday at the Yallambee Lodge aged care facility in Cooma.The 33-year-old senior constable attached to Monaro Police District was one of the officers who responded to a call about 4am that Nowland was holding a knife while using her walker.
Nowland, a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, is in critical condition in hospital with family and friends by her side.
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