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The Advertiser
11-08-2025
- The Advertiser
Cop who tasered grandmother drops bid to get job back
A former police officer who fatally tasered a 95-year-old aged-care resident while on duty has dropped his bid to be reinstated to the force. Then-senior constable Kristian James Samuel White fired his Taser at 95-year-old Clare Nowland after being called to Yallambee Lodge nursing home at Cooma in southern NSW on May 17, 2023. He avoided being jailed in March. He was given a two-year good behaviour bond and ordered to complete community service after a NSW Supreme Court jury found him guilty of manslaughter. White was suspended from his job with pay for about 18 months but was notified after an initial guilty verdict in November 2024 that he would be suspended without pay. That prompted him to take action at the Industrial Relations Commission against NSW on Monday he dropped his legal challenge, with the Supreme Court saying the matter was closed. It comes nearly two weeks after White walked free in late July. His sentence was upheld after three judges from the NSW Court of Appeal dismissed a legal challenge by prosecutors seeking a prison term. The court considered that White had lost his job and was unwelcome in the small town of Cooma where he lived, chief judge Andrew Bell noted. The 35-year-old has been diagnosed with severe depression and anxiety, and has admitted to thoughts of self-harm since he was sentenced. During the two-minute and 40-second encounter at Yallambee Lodge, White drew his stun gun and pointed it at Mrs Nowland for a minute before saying "Nah, bugger it" and discharging the weapon at her chest. The 48kg great-grandmother, who had symptoms of dementia, fell and hit her did not regain consciousness and died in hospital a week later after a brain bleed. A former police officer who fatally tasered a 95-year-old aged-care resident while on duty has dropped his bid to be reinstated to the force. Then-senior constable Kristian James Samuel White fired his Taser at 95-year-old Clare Nowland after being called to Yallambee Lodge nursing home at Cooma in southern NSW on May 17, 2023. He avoided being jailed in March. He was given a two-year good behaviour bond and ordered to complete community service after a NSW Supreme Court jury found him guilty of manslaughter. White was suspended from his job with pay for about 18 months but was notified after an initial guilty verdict in November 2024 that he would be suspended without pay. That prompted him to take action at the Industrial Relations Commission against NSW on Monday he dropped his legal challenge, with the Supreme Court saying the matter was closed. It comes nearly two weeks after White walked free in late July. His sentence was upheld after three judges from the NSW Court of Appeal dismissed a legal challenge by prosecutors seeking a prison term. The court considered that White had lost his job and was unwelcome in the small town of Cooma where he lived, chief judge Andrew Bell noted. The 35-year-old has been diagnosed with severe depression and anxiety, and has admitted to thoughts of self-harm since he was sentenced. During the two-minute and 40-second encounter at Yallambee Lodge, White drew his stun gun and pointed it at Mrs Nowland for a minute before saying "Nah, bugger it" and discharging the weapon at her chest. The 48kg great-grandmother, who had symptoms of dementia, fell and hit her did not regain consciousness and died in hospital a week later after a brain bleed. A former police officer who fatally tasered a 95-year-old aged-care resident while on duty has dropped his bid to be reinstated to the force. Then-senior constable Kristian James Samuel White fired his Taser at 95-year-old Clare Nowland after being called to Yallambee Lodge nursing home at Cooma in southern NSW on May 17, 2023. He avoided being jailed in March. He was given a two-year good behaviour bond and ordered to complete community service after a NSW Supreme Court jury found him guilty of manslaughter. White was suspended from his job with pay for about 18 months but was notified after an initial guilty verdict in November 2024 that he would be suspended without pay. That prompted him to take action at the Industrial Relations Commission against NSW on Monday he dropped his legal challenge, with the Supreme Court saying the matter was closed. It comes nearly two weeks after White walked free in late July. His sentence was upheld after three judges from the NSW Court of Appeal dismissed a legal challenge by prosecutors seeking a prison term. The court considered that White had lost his job and was unwelcome in the small town of Cooma where he lived, chief judge Andrew Bell noted. The 35-year-old has been diagnosed with severe depression and anxiety, and has admitted to thoughts of self-harm since he was sentenced. During the two-minute and 40-second encounter at Yallambee Lodge, White drew his stun gun and pointed it at Mrs Nowland for a minute before saying "Nah, bugger it" and discharging the weapon at her chest. The 48kg great-grandmother, who had symptoms of dementia, fell and hit her did not regain consciousness and died in hospital a week later after a brain bleed. A former police officer who fatally tasered a 95-year-old aged-care resident while on duty has dropped his bid to be reinstated to the force. Then-senior constable Kristian James Samuel White fired his Taser at 95-year-old Clare Nowland after being called to Yallambee Lodge nursing home at Cooma in southern NSW on May 17, 2023. He avoided being jailed in March. He was given a two-year good behaviour bond and ordered to complete community service after a NSW Supreme Court jury found him guilty of manslaughter. White was suspended from his job with pay for about 18 months but was notified after an initial guilty verdict in November 2024 that he would be suspended without pay. That prompted him to take action at the Industrial Relations Commission against NSW on Monday he dropped his legal challenge, with the Supreme Court saying the matter was closed. It comes nearly two weeks after White walked free in late July. His sentence was upheld after three judges from the NSW Court of Appeal dismissed a legal challenge by prosecutors seeking a prison term. The court considered that White had lost his job and was unwelcome in the small town of Cooma where he lived, chief judge Andrew Bell noted. The 35-year-old has been diagnosed with severe depression and anxiety, and has admitted to thoughts of self-harm since he was sentenced. During the two-minute and 40-second encounter at Yallambee Lodge, White drew his stun gun and pointed it at Mrs Nowland for a minute before saying "Nah, bugger it" and discharging the weapon at her chest. The 48kg great-grandmother, who had symptoms of dementia, fell and hit her did not regain consciousness and died in hospital a week later after a brain bleed.
Perth Now
11-08-2025
- Perth Now
Cop who tasered grandmother drops bid to get job back
A former police officer who fatally tasered a 95-year-old aged-care resident while on duty has dropped his bid to be reinstated to the force. Then-senior constable Kristian James Samuel White fired his Taser at 95-year-old Clare Nowland after being called to Yallambee Lodge nursing home at Cooma in southern NSW on May 17, 2023. He avoided being jailed in March. He was given a two-year good behaviour bond and ordered to complete community service after a NSW Supreme Court jury found him guilty of manslaughter. White was suspended from his job with pay for about 18 months but was notified after an initial guilty verdict in November 2024 that he would be suspended without pay. Police Commissioner Karen Webb said in December she had removed White from the force because she had no confidence in his ability to continue his duties. That prompted him to take action at the Industrial Relations Commission against NSW on Monday he dropped his legal challenge, with the Supreme Court saying the matter was closed. It comes nearly two weeks after White walked free in late July. His sentence was upheld after three judges from the NSW Court of Appeal dismissed a legal challenge by prosecutors seeking a prison term. The court considered that White had lost his job and was unwelcome in the small town of Cooma where he lived, chief judge Andrew Bell noted. The 35-year-old has been diagnosed with severe depression and anxiety, and has admitted to thoughts of self-harm since he was sentenced. During the two-minute and 40-second encounter at Yallambee Lodge, White drew his stun gun and pointed it at Mrs Nowland for a minute before saying "Nah, bugger it" and discharging the weapon at her chest. The 48kg great-grandmother, who had symptoms of dementia, fell and hit her did not regain consciousness and died in hospital a week later after a brain bleed.
Yahoo
27-06-2025
- Yahoo
Great-granny given 'no chance' to avoid tasering by cop
An ex-police officer spared jail for killing a 95-year-old woman didn't give her "any real chance" to avoid being tasered during an encounter that lasted less than three minutes, a court has been told. Then-senior constable Kristian James Samuel White fired his Taser at Clare Nowland minutes after being called to the Yallambee Lodge nursing home at Cooma in southern NSW. She died in hospital a week after the incident in the early hours of May 17, 2023. The 35-year-old was handed a two-year good behaviour bond and ordered to complete community service in March after a jury found him guilty of manslaughter. Crown prosecutors appealed against the "manifestly inadequate" sentence when the case went to the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal in Sydney on Friday. Director of Public Prosecutions Sally Dowling SC argued that Supreme Court Justice Ian Harrison made a number of errors when he decided not to send White to prison. She told the court Mrs Nowland suffered symptoms of dementia and relied on her walking frame to move around the building. "All of the footage … shows how frail she was, how disorientated she was and how confused she was in the hours leading up to the events," Ms Dowling said. The great-grandmother was "extremely vulnerable" at the time because she was tired, confused, frail and moved slowly. She had no discernible reaction to his warnings or requests to drop the knife she was holding during the two minutes and 40 seconds interaction with White. "At no time did Mrs Nowland advance brandishing the knife," Ms Dowling said. She was stationary when he said "nah bugger it" and discharged the Taser at her chest, causing her to fall backwards and sustain a brain injury. "(White) did not give her any real chance to avoid being tasered," Ms Dowling said. "There were many other options available to him." Justice Harrison was wrong to conclude jailing White would be disproportionate to the seriousness of the offending. He also mistakenly found the police officer made a "terrible mistake" but his crime was less serious than other manslaughter offences, prosecutors claim. In his judgment, Justice Harrison decided the need to deter other police officers from committing similar offences played "only a minor role" in his sentencing decision. But Ms Dowling believes he should have issued a strong warning to other police. Mrs Nowland's eldest son Michael slammed the sentence as "very disappointing" when it was handed down. "A slap on the wrist for someone who's killed our mother - it's very, very hard to process that," he said. Mrs Nowland's family attended every day of White's trial and returned to fill rows of the public gallery during the appeal, which continues on Friday.
