An ex-policeman who fatally tasered a 95-year-old great grandmother will still serve a community sentence after an appeals court dismissed a bid to jail him.
An appeal against a former police officer's "inadequate" sentence has heard that he didn't give a 95-year-old great-grandmother a chance to avoid being tasered.
A senior constable who fatally tasered a 95-year-old woman has been dismissed from the police force less than a week after being found guilty of manslaughter.
A senior constable found guilty of a 95-year-old's manslaughter has been granted bail despite prosecutors arguing he should immediately be taken into custody.
In the hours before being cornered by police and fatally tasered, great-grandmother Clare Nowland took two steak knives and raised them at residents and staff.
A police officer did not taser a 95-year-old woman holding a knife because she was a threat but rather because his patience had run out, a jury has been told.
An elderly woman holding a knife was not meant to die after being tasered for being a threat as she approached police officers and paramedics, a jury has heard.
A number of concerning medical signs were observed in an elderly woman as she was taken from her care home after being tasered by police, court has been told.
A great-grandmother's dementia meant she would not have understood what was happening when a Taser-wielding cop ordered her to drop her knife, a jury has heard.
A senior constable had a sworn duty to taser a knife-wielding 95-year-old woman in an aged-care home to prevent a violent confrontation, a jury has been told.
