The 95-year-old lady is in “critical condition”. This Friday, the Australian police admitted that one of its agents had used a stun gun against this woman, in a retirement home. Police were called to a nursing home in New South Wales on Wednesday to subdue a woman “wielding a knife”, police said in a statement.
“The police tried to talk to the woman,” she continued. During this interaction, an experienced officer used his taser, causing the woman to fall and hit her head. »
A woman with dementia
The old lady was taken to Cooma District Hospital in the south of the state, where she is in “critical condition”, according to the police.
According to the daily Daily Telegraph Sydney and other media outlets said the woman, Clare Nowland, is a mother of eight with dementia and was walking on her walker brandishing a knife when police arrived. Police said they had opened an investigation into the “critical incident”.
