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Kristian White will continue to serve his sentence in the community for the manslaughter of 95-year-old Clare Nowland after a failed appeal by New South Wales prosecutors against the ex-police officer’s community sentence.
While a NSW senior police constable, White fired his Taser at the great-grandmother two minutes and 40 seconds after he arrived to a call out at the Yallambee Lodge nursing home in May 2023. Nowland fell, did not regain consciousness and died in hospital a week later.
The 35-year-old was found guilty of manslaughter by a jury last year and in March was handed a two-year good behaviour bond and ordered to complete community service.
After White was sentenced, the NSW Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions announced it would appeal against “the inadequacy of the sentence imposed in this matter”.
Justice Ian Harrison, when handing down his sentencing decision in the NSW supreme court in March, said the incident “falls in the lower end of objective seriousness” for manslaughter and that time in prison would be “disproportionate”.
At the time, Nowland’s family eldest son called it “a slap on the wrist for someone that’s killed our mother”.
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