Tasered 95-year-old Clare Nowland is now receiving end-of-life care whilst NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb faces pressing questions regarding the incident. 9News
Her family is holding a bedside vigil as NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb faces fresh questions about the incident.Officers were called to Yallambee Lodge in Cooma after staff found Clare Nowland armed with a knife.Webb told 9News it took 36 hours to establish how the Taser was used.
"People have lots of opinions. I understand the community concern and outrage with what has been recorded," Webb said."It's not going to change my view about it," she said.NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb faces questions from the media on Monday, May 22, about the Tasering of Clare Nowland, 95.The family of Clare Nowland released a statement today, expressing their "profound love and affection" for their mum, nana and great grandmother.
"Clare was a well respected, much loved and a giving member of her local community, Clare is the loving and gentle natured matriarch of the Nowland family," the statement read. "This is a most worrying and distressing time for our family and we are united in our support for Clare and for each other. "We stand together. We thank everyone here in Cooma, the wider region and, in fact, the whole country and around the world for the outpouring of support for her and her ongoing battle with dementia —which touches so many."Continue reading
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