<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <docID>334504</docID> <postdate>2024-12-03 15:40:32</postdate> <headline>Cop who tasered 95-year-old sacked after guilty verdict</headline> <body><p><img class=" wp-image-334505" src="https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/20241121188792740885-original-1-scaled.jpg" alt="" width="1043" height="695" /></p> <caption>Kristian White has been sacked from the NSW Police Force. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS)</caption> <p class="wire-column__preview__author"><span class="kicker-line">By <b>Neve Brissenden</b> in Sydney</span></p> <p><strong>An experienced officer who killed an elderly woman by tasering her in an aged-care home has been sacked from the force nearly a week after his guilty verdict.</strong></p> <p>Senior Constable Kristian James Samuel White fatally discharged his Taser at 95-year-old Clare Nowland in a treatment room at Yallambee Lodge in the southern NSW town of Cooma during the early hours of May 17, 2023.</p> <p>A jury unanimously found White guilty of manslaughter on Wednesday, with crown prosecutors making an unsuccessful bid to place him behind bars a day later.</p> <p>The 34-year-old was removed from the NSW Police Force on Tuesday by Commissioner Karen Webb.</p> <p>"I have determined that I do not have confidence in the officer's suitability to continue as a police officer," she said in a statement, adding that White had been advised of the move through his lawyers.</p> <p>Ms Webb added she had also spoken with Mrs Nowland's family to notify them of the decision.</p> <p>Despite the guilty verdict, White is due to remain on bail until at least February, when he will be sentenced.</p> <p>Police and paramedics were called to Mrs Nowland's nursing home after the great-grandmother grabbed two steak knives from a kitchen and brandished them at residents and staff before throwing one at a carer.</p> <p>White pulled the Taser's trigger after three minutes of negotiations to get her to put down the remaining knife.</p> <p>He was heard in video footage played at his trial saying "nah, bugger it" before shooting Mrs Nowland in the torso.</p> <p>She hit her head on the floor as she fell and died at Cooma Hospital a week later.</p> <p>White had been suspended from duties with pay during his trial but was removed from the payroll a day after his guilty verdict.</p> <p>The case has been listed for a sentence hearing on February 7.</p> </body>