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The Guardian - AU
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Ben Doherty and Jordyn Beazley

Kristian White ‘entirely devastated’ as Clare Nowland’s family ‘struggling to understand’ why police officer granted bail

Kristian White leaves the supreme court in Sydney
Kristian White, 34, was found guilty on Wednesday of the manslaughter of Clare Nowland at her Cooma nursing home in 2023. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

The New South Wales policeman who fatally shot a 95-year-old great-grandmother with a Taser has said he never intended for her to be harmed, and remains “entirely devastated” for her family’s loss.

Sen Const Kristian James Samuel White shot Clare Nowland with his Taser in a Cooma nursing home in the early hours of 17 May 2023, after she refused to put down a sharp knife. Nowland fell and struck her head, dying a week later from inoperable bleeding on the brain.

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