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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Kate Lyons

Kristian White did not give Clare Nowland ‘real chance to avoid being Tasered’, prosecutors argue

Kristian White outside court
Kristian White was found guilty of manslaughter last year and handed a two-year good behaviour bond and ordered to complete community service. Photograph: Steven Markham/AAP

An ex-police officer who “rushed” to deploy his Taser against a 95-year-old woman during an encounter at a nursing home in Cooma should be sentenced to jail time after a “manifestly inadequate” non-custodial sentence was imposed on him earlier this year, a court has heard.

Kristian James Samuel White, while a New South Wales police constable, fired his Taser at Clare Nowland two minutes and 40 seconds after being called to the Yallambee Lodge nursing home.

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