NSW police twice taser 95-year-old woman with dementia leaving her with fractured skull

The woman was taken to Cooma district hospital and family say they do not expect her to survive as police launch internal investigation

A 95-year-old woman who suffers from dementia is in hospital with a suspected fractured skull and “brain bleed” after she was tasered by police at an aged care facility.

Andrew Thaler, who ran as an independent candidate for Eden-Monaro and spoke to Guardian Australia with permission from the woman’s family, said the woman was tasered in the early hours of Wednesday morning after she was found wandering with a knife in her hand.