Chris Minns has rejected calls to sack his police minister after it was revealed her department slashed key details from its first statement on the tasering of a 95-year-old great-grandmother.
Clare Nowland was tasered during a confrontation with police while walking with a frame and holding a steak knife at the Yallambee Lodge in Cooma on May 17.
The mother of eight, who had dementia, died a week later in hospital.
A 71-word press release approved by Police Commissioner Karen Webb was issued 12 hours after Nowland was injured but provided scant detail about her “interaction with police”.
“No further details are available at this time,” it said….