The 2020 incident, in which a suspect was unlawfully detained by two NSW Police officers, was condemned by a “horrified” magistrate.
The police officer who Tasered a 95-year-old great-grandmother once unlawfully detained a suspect during an encounter in which his shift partner allegedly threatened to break the man’s legs.
“Negotiations commenced with Clare to essentially drop the knife. For whatever reason, Clare did not do that,” Assistant Commissioner Peter Cotter said on Friday. Cotter told reporters Nowland had been moving “at a slow pace” with a walking frame. In April 2020, the same senior constable was one of two NSW Police officers who confronted a man on a motorbike in a service station in Hume, just across the border in the Australian Capital Territory.
ACT magistrate Bernadette Boss ruled the body-worn video footage from the NSW officers was inadmissible and dismissed the charges, calling the police conduct “outrageous”. Webb also defended a media release published by police last week which omitted any mention Nowland had been Tasered.“Mrs Nowland has a large family and we didn’t want that family to hear on radio or on TV what had happened to their mum, and so we had to be sensitive to that and when we were able to talk about it, we did,” Webb told Fordham.
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