Top NSW Police officers covered up the Tasering of 95-year-old great-grandmother Clare Nowland by an officer, deleting crucial details from a public statement about the incident in a Cooma nursing home.
under freedom of information laws reveal the original draft media release sent for approval on the day the Tasering occurred contained detailed information about what happened at Yallambee Lodge in the early hours of May 17.
Deegan emailed the edited statement to NSW Deputy Police Commissioner David Hudson at 1.43pm. She wrote “deputy, for your approval/feedback, the revised holding statement below”. He approved the wording at 2.09pm. Details of Nowland being in a critical condition after being Tasered by a police officer did not come to light until a story published byapproached NSW Police asking if they had any further details on this case, officers said there was no further detail.
“It was important that the family were informed of the situation in a factual manner before we went public on it, and I think that’s very necessary, and I’m sure that family appreciates that now,” she said. “It was the first I’d heard about the information and the opposition should take it to LECC . However, in addition to that I think it’s also important that we bear in mind ... the family,” she told parliament.
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