NSW police minister under pressure amid claims of ‘cover-up’ over fatal Tasering of Clare Nowland

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Yasmin Catley faces renewed scrutiny over police delay in publicly revealing the use of a stun gun on 95-year-old great-grandmother

The New South Wales police minister is facing fresh scrutiny over her claim that a delay in revealing that Clare Nowland was Tasered by police before she died was due to the need to inform her family.

A suggestion by Yasmin Catley and the police commissioner, Karen Webb, that the two-day delay was needed to inform Nowland’s family was undermined this week by an internal police document showing senior next of kin were informed on 17 May – the day of the incident.

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