Police officer who tasered Clare Nowland tells court taking knife from her hand came with ‘high risk’

Sen Const Kristian James Samuel White, charged over the tasering of 95-year-old Clare Nowland who later died, has told a court he ‘didn’t think she would be seriously injured’. Photograph: Steve Markham/AAP

A police officer who fatally tasered a 95-year-old woman in a nursing home said he tried to give her “every opportunity to drop the knife” she was carrying, but she had “made her intent clear: she was going to use that knife on anyone that got near her”.

Sen Const Kristian James Samuel White also told the court simply taking the knife out of Clare Nowland’s hand came with “risk, high risk”.