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Miklos Bolza

Cop who tasered 95yo in 'terrible tragedy' faces jail

Kristian White has kept his police job after being found guilty of an elderly woman's manslaughter. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS)

A police officer who tasered a 95-year-old dementia patient who fell and later died, faces an employment review after a jury found him guilty of manslaughter.

Senior Constable Kristian James Samuel White fatally discharged his stun gun at Clare Nowland in a treatment room at Yallambee Lodge aged-care home in the southern NSW town of Cooma during the early hours of May 17, 2023.

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