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Miklos Bolza

Trigger-happy or justified? How a cop ended 95yo's life

Clare Nowland, 95, died after being tasered by a police officer at her nursing home. (HANDOUT/SUPPLIED)

In the early hours of a Wednesday morning, 95-year-old nursing-home resident Clare Nowland climbed out of bed, grabbed her four-wheeled walker and began shuffling through the facility's dimly lit corridors.

Only a few hours later, the great-grandmother was on her back with a fatal head injury after being tasered by police.

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