Family sues over fatal police tasering of 95-year-old Australian great-grandmother

Sydney — Lawyers for the family of a 95-year-old great-grandmother who died after being tasered by Australian police said Tuesday they are suing the state government. Clare Nowland, who suffered from dementia, died on May 24, a week after a state police officer shot her with an electronic stun gun at her nursing home in southern New South Wales.

"A civil claim has been brought," the family's lawyer, Sam Tierney, told AFP.

The suit against the New South Wales government seeks damages on behalf of Clare Nowland's estate for alleged battery and assault, he said.