‘No Real Chance to Avoid Taser’: Prosecutors Say Officer’s Sentence for Killing 95-Year-Old Was Too Lenient

‘No Real Chance to Avoid Taser’: Prosecutors Say Officer’s Sentence for Killing 95-Year-Old Was Too Lenient
A supplied image obtained on Friday, May 19, 2023, of Clare Nowland. AAP Image/Supplied
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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.

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