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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Lucy Skoulding

Police officer who tasered 95-year-old Clare Nowland in care home suspended

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The officer who tasered a 95-year-old woman in a care home in Australia has been suspended from duty.

Clare Nowland sustained critical injuries when police were called out to the care home to reports she was walking around with a knife at 4am last Wednesday.

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