NSW Police removed mention of paramedics, a knife and a Taser in their first statement about the tasering of a 95-year-old grandmother, according to new documents.
The mother-of-eight, who had dementia, died a week later in hospital.
The 171-word draft prepared by the NSW Police Media Unit outlined how police responded at 4.15am to reports that an aged care home resident had a knife and found a woman "still armed ... in a small room". Police did not publicly comment on the incident again until after multiple media reports emerged more than 36 hours after the tasering.
She denied police were hiding anything, saying the Nowland family deserved to learn about the incident via police, not media reports.
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