Former NSW police officer Kristian White avoids jail after fatally shooting 95-year-old Clare Nowland with Taser

Kristian White was convicted of manslaughter over death of Nowland whom he shot with a Taser at a Cooma aged care home in 2023

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Former New South Wales police officer Kristian White will not go to prison after he fatally shot a 95-year-old great-grandmother with a Taser, and will instead serve his sentence for manslaughter in the community.

Justice Ian Harrison handed down his sentencing decision in the NSW supreme court on Friday, saying the incident in his opinion “falls in the lower end of objective seriousness” for manslaughter and that time in prison would be a “disproportionate” sentence.