NSW Police is trying to stop Clare Nowland’s daughter from watching “confronting” police bodycam footage of the moment her mother was tasered as part of a civil case the family has brought against the state.
The 95-year-old grandmother died in hospital in May, a week after she was tasered by a NSW Police officer at the Yallambee Lodge aged care home in Cooma in the state’s south.
Mrs Nowland’s family filed a civil case against the state of NSW for trespass to a person and negligence on May 19, with her daughter Leslie Lloyd listed as the executor. The matter had previously been dealt with in Bega where media were unable to attend, but this week an application to override a decision made by a registrar was brought to the District Court in Sydney.
Judge Matthew Dicker SC told the court there was an “issue of balancing the desire to protect” Constable White in the criminal proceedings while ensuring evidence in both cases was “most reliable” and “not capable of criticism”. “There were legitimate matters raised concerning the crucial importance in our society of a fair criminal trial,” Judge Dicker said.
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