Perry Duffin and Sarah McPhee reporting in The Sydney Morning Herald.
The NSW Police officer who Tasered great-grandmother Clare Nowland before her death is “very distressed” for himself and all involved, his lawyer says, as he prepares to fight the charges.
In Sydney the police watchdog, the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission, will oversee the investigation into the Tasering of Nowland.
The LECC on Thursday put police officer training under the microscope as it investigated allegations excessive force was used during the arrest of an Indigenous teenager in northern NSW in September 2022.
Redfern Legal Centre solicitor Samantha Lee, representing the Indigenous teenager who sustained a head injury as he was apprehended, questioned training around the impact of force on elderly or young people.
