Australian police officer who used a stun gun on a 95-year-old woman has been charged with murder.

Australian police accused of Using an electric gun to shock a 95-year-old woman with dementia in a nursing home. causing her to fall and die at the hospital. was charged with murder

An Australian police officer has been charged with manslaughter. after he was accused of using a stun gun to shock a 95-year-old woman with dementia in a nursing home.

Mrs Claire Nowland died in hospital in May. This comes a week after police were alerted to an incident at a nursing home in Cooma. New South Wales after nursing home staff reported that one resident was carrying a knife.

Senior police officer Christian White, 33, is accused of using a stun gun on Ms Nowland. After begging her to drop the steak knife she was holding, This makes Nowland, who uses a walking device, He fell until his head hit the ground. It broke her skull.

White, who was initially suspended with pay He was charged with several offenses. Including assault and bodily harm through negligence.

In a statement published online on Wednesday (Nov. 29), NSW Police said: “In accordance with the advice of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions State Crime Command’s Homicide Unit An additional charge of manslaughter has been filed against a 33-year-old senior police officer at the Monaro Provincial Police Station.”

According to court documents It was said that when staff at the nursing home tried to persuade Nowland to hand over the knife she was holding, She threw a knife towards them. After the police arrived White and another officer along with ambulance personnel Nowland was found in the room holding a knife. Another officer tried to grab a knife. But Nowland moved toward them using her walker.

White then allegedly used his stun gun. He told the victim, “Claire, stop it. Look, this is a stun gun. Put the knife down now. This is your first warning.” Next, she raised the hand holding the knife to chest height. And he used an electric shock gun to hit him in the chest. causing her to fall and hit her head on the ground, still holding the walker.

White, who is due in court on December 6, remains suspended without pay. And still gives denial.