The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (NSW) will
file
an appeal against the inadequacy of the sentence imposed
on a police officer who avoided a prison sentence despite being
convicted of manslaughter for fatally tasering a 95-year old
great-grandmother at an aged care facility in southern New South
Wales.
The incident
Now 35-year-old Kristian White was a senior constable when he
attended Yallambee Lodge aged care facility in Cooma with another
officer on 17 May 2023 in response to information that a resident
was in
possession of a knife.
The officers arrived and saw 95-year-old great-grandmother Clare
Nowland, who weighed just 45 kilograms at the time, in a walking
frame and holding a steak knife. She was reported to have been
rambling, and it should have been clear she was suffering from
a
mental health episode. She was suffering from dementia at the
time.
