A magistrate has berated prosecutors for allowing the police officer accused of tasering a 95-year-old grandmother not to appear in person before court. Senior Constable Kristian White first appeared before Cooma Court Local Court via video link on July 5 over the tasering of great-grandmother Clare Nowland, who later died from injuries sustained in the…

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…