US Edition‘Bugger it’: Australian policeman avoids jail for tasering great grandmother
- On May 17, 2023, at approximately 4:00 AM, former police officer Kristian White tasered 95-year-old Clare Nowland, who suffered from dementia and was holding a serrated steak knife, at the Yallambee Lodge aged care home in Cooma, NSW.
- White was called to the care home after a staff member reported that Mrs. Nowland was wandering the premises with a knife and entering other residents' rooms, leading White to believe that a violent confrontation was possible.
- Body cam footage showed White warning Mrs. Nowland to drop the knife before saying "bugger it" and firing his Taser, causing her to fall, hit her head, and suffer a fatal brain bleed, despite prosecutors arguing his actions were "grossly disproportionate" given that Mrs. Nowland weighed under 48kg and used a walker.
- White stated he used the Taser to prevent a "violent confrontation," while Clare Nowland's eldest son, Michael Nowland, told the court, "To this day I am traumatised by this gutless coward act," and Justice Ian Harrison said, "White completely- and on one available view, inexplicably- misread and misunderstood the dynamics of the situation."
- Kristian White was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to a two-year community corrections order with 425 hours of community service, avoiding jail time, a decision that sparked public outcry and drew scrutiny over NSW Police's use of force, despite White's expression of deep regret and the Nowland family's disappointment.
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After killing an unageenary with a taser, an Australian policeman avoids prison
In May 2023, the 34-year-old policeman had used his taser on Clare Nowland, a victim of a dementia attack. The 95-year-old woman had succumbed to a brain hemorrhage following the shock a few days later.
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'Slap on the wrist': grandma-killing cop spared jail
Former senior constable Kristian White is set to hear whether he’ll be jailed for manslaughter. (Steve Markham/AAP PHOTOS) By Miklos Bolza and Rachel Jackson in Sydney A judge’s decision to spare a police officer jail for killing a frail, confused elderly woman with a Taser shot has been slammed as a “slap on the wrist” by her tearful family. Former senior constable Kristian James Samuel White walked stone-faced through a scrum of media as he l…
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