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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Jordyn Beazley

Clare Nowland’s son says decision not to imprison police officer who killed her a ‘slap on the wrist’

Kristian White was found guilty of the manslaughter of 95-year-old Clare Nowland.
Kristian White was found guilty of the manslaughter of 95-year-old Clare Nowland. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP

A judge’s decision not to send Kristian White to jail for the manslaughter of Clare Nowland is “a slap on the wrist for someone that’s killed our mother”, according to the 95-year-old’s son.

Justice Ian Harrison handed down his sentencing decision for the former New South Wales police officer in the NSW supreme court on Friday, saying the incident in his opinion “falls in the lower end of objective seriousness” for manslaughter and that time in prison would be a “disproportionate” sentence.

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