Clare Nowland: Officer who tasered 95-year old woman suspended

The constabulary serviceman who Tasered a 95-year-old pistillate astatine an Australian attraction home, critically injuring her, has been suspended.

New South Wales (NSW) Police said the 33-year-old elder constable was stood down with pay.

An probe into the incidental continues, arsenic Clare Nowland receives "end of beingness care" successful hospital.

Amid nationalist outcry, critics person called the effect by constabulary and attraction location unit disproportionate.

Police accidental they were called to the attraction location successful Cooma, astir 114km (71 miles) southbound of Canberra, astir 4:00 connected Wednesday aft reports Ms Nowland was "armed" with a steak knife.

The serviceman discharged his limb erstwhile Ms Nowland - who has dementia - began approaching "at a dilatory pace".

"She had a walking frame. But she had a knife," Assistant Police Commissioner Peter Cotter told media connected Friday.

Ms Nowland is believed to person suffered a fractured skull and a superior encephalon bleed aft falling and hitting her caput during the incident.

Community groups, including the NSW Council for Civil Liberties and People with Disability Australia (PwD), person powerfully criticised the response, and called for amended de-escalation training.

"The household are shocked, they're confused... and the assemblage is outraged," household person Andrew Thaler told the BBC connected Friday.

"How tin this happen? How bash you explicate this level of force? It's absurd."

In a connection connected Monday, Ms Nowland's household added that they were grateful for the outpouring of enactment from astir the world, but appealed for privateness amid a "worrying and distressing time".

"Well respected, overmuch loved and a giving subordinate of her section community, Clare is the loving and gentle-natured matriarch of the Nowland family," the connection said.

Investigations into the effect by constabulary and attraction location unit are nether way, with the homicide squad involved.

"No officer, not 1 of us, is supra the law," Mr Cotter said.

"All our actions volition beryllium scrutinised robustly from a transgression position arsenic well."