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Clare Nowland, 95, is in a New South Wales, Australia, hospital after Tasered by a senior constable. Nowland, who has dementia, is a nursing home resident. The constable had been called to that nursing home because Nowland had a knife. "At the time she was Tasered she was approaching police.…

The NSW senior police constable who tasered a 95-year-old great-grandmother in her nursing home has been suspended from duty with pay.

The nursing home resident was found alone in her room with a steak knife when the officer in question fired his Taser. The woman is now in critical condition at the hospital.

The great-grandmother is now fighting for her life after police tasered her while she was holding a steak knife at her nursing home

The police chief declined to say whether he thought a police officer with 12 years experience had used excessive force by firing a stun gun twice at a 5ft 2ins and 6.7st "much loved" elderly woman

A 95-year-old woman was in critical condition Friday, two days after police shocked her with a stun gun as she approached them with a walking frame and a steak knife in an Australian nursing home

The woman is in critical condition as is "expected to die".

A 95-year-old woman with dementia was tasered after staff at her aged care home, fearing she was carrying a knife, called NSW Police.

A 95-year-old great-grandmother is reportedly fighting for her life after being tasered when she was found with a knife in a nursing home.