Cop Who Tasered Grandmother in Cooma Drops Bid to Get Job Back

Cop who tasered grandmother in Cooma drops bid to get job back

A former police officer who fatally tasered a 95-year-old aged-care resident while on duty has dropped his bid to be reinstated to the force. Then-senior constable Kristian James Samuel White fired his Taser at 95-year-old Clare Nowland after being called to Yallambee Lodge nursing home at Cooma in southern NSW on May 17, 2023. He avoided being jailed in March. He was given a two-year good behaviour bond and ordered to complete community service…

Crown Inadequacy Appeal Against Killer Cop Fails

By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim During sentencing in March 2025, NSW Chief Judge at Common Law Andrew Bell explained that former NSW police constable Kristian White had made “an error of judgement”, when he tasered 95-year-old grandmother Clare Nowland at the Yallambee Lodge aged care facility in the NSW town of Cooma on 17 May 2023, which was an act that resulted in her death in hospital the following week. And as staff were unsuccessful in det…