Police shoot 'taser' to death 95-year-old grandmother holding dining knife

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Police have been convicted of shooting a Taser to death to an elderly woman in her 90s who was walking around with a dining knife at an Australian nursing hospital.

According to foreign media reports such as the BBC on the 27th (local time), Sergeant Christian White was dispatched on May 17 last year after receiving a report that a 95-year-old grandmother was walking around with two dining knives at a nursing hospital.

Upon arriving at the scene, Sergeant White ordered his grandmother to put down her knife, but when she did not comply, he shot a Taser from a distance of 1.5 to 2 meters.

Shortly before the Taser was fired, the grandmother was reportedly standing with a knife in one hand and a walker in the other.

The grandmother, who was hit by a Taser, fell and hit her head on the floor and died at the scene of a cerebral hemorrhage.

At the time of death, the victim was 157 centimeters tall and weighed 48 kilograms, and although he was not formally diagnosed with dementia, his cognitive ability was deteriorated.

Sergeant White, who was handed over to trial, pleaded in court, "I didn't think I would be seriously injured," and "I was also devastated by my grandmother's death," but the court charged him with manslaughter, saying that Sergeant White's negligence was recognized.

The court found that shooting a Taser at an elderly woman who suffers from dementia and weighs less than 48 kilograms was an abuse of public power. In addition, based on a statement from a resident of a nursing hospital that the grandmother carried a dining knife, but it was not threatening enough to use a Taser.

The court found her guilty, saying, "The police responded patiently, using a weapon three minutes after finding her."

Reporter Park Sun-young of Digital News Team