Clare Nowland: Police 'don't intend' to release video of 95-year-old's Tasering

Australian constabulary accidental they volition not merchandise bodycam footage of the infinitesimal an aged pistillate with dementia was Tasered by an officer.

Clare Nowland, 95, is successful captious information aft an serviceman discharged the limb astatine a attraction location successful Cooma, New South Wales (NSW), connected Wednesday.

Police accidental Ms Nowland had moved towards them "at a dilatory pace" with a knife.

NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb said she was "not sure" wherefore determination were calls for the footage to beryllium released.

"I americium not definite wherefore they privation to spot it," she told reporters astatine a property conference.

"Body-worn video is taxable to legislative requirements astir the surveillance devices enactment and different things, truthful it is not regular and we don't mean to merchandise it, unless determination is simply a process astatine the extremity of this that would let it to beryllium released."

Ms Webb said she had not seen the video but had heard audio from the footage. She said she does not "see it necessary" for her to presumption it.

The lawsuit has made planetary headlines and sparked an outcry implicit what advocates accidental was a disproportionate response.

NSW Police has launched a captious incidental investigation, which Ms Webb said would "take immoderate time".

Police accidental they asked Ms Nowland, aided by a walking frame, to driblet the weapon earlier an serviceman discharged the weapon.

Family person Andrew Thaler claimed Ms Nowland was struck doubly - successful the thorax and the backmost - earlier she fell, suffering a fractured skull and a superior encephalon bleed.

Her household are already grieving arsenic they bash not expect her to survive, helium told BBC News.

"The household are shocked, they're confused... and the assemblage is outraged."

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