Police officer Kristian White has pleaded not guilty to the allegation he fatally Tasered 95-year-old great-grandmother Clare Nowland at her nursing home.
The NSW policeman, 33, appeared in the Supreme Court via video link on Friday where he entered his formal plea and was committed to stand trial on November 11 on one count of manslaughter.
Mrs Nowland, a dementia sufferer who weighed just 43kg, had been holding a steak knife when she ‘slowly’ approached a police officer at the Yallambee Lodge in May, 2023.
NSW policeman Kristian White, 33, appeared in the Supreme Court via video link on Friday where he entered his formal plea and was committed to stand trial on November 11 on one count of manslaughter
Mrs Nowland, a dementia sufferer who weighed just 43kg, had been holding a steak knife when she ‘slowly’ approached a police officer at the Yallambee Lodge in May, 2023
It’s alleged Snr Cnst White blasted a taser on Mrs Nowland, prompting her to collapse to the ground, knock her head and suffer a bleed to the brain.
Yallambee Lodge staff members reportedly called an ambulance just after 4am that morning with the two police officers arriving just before 5am.
They discovered a frail Mrs Nowland sitting in a chair at a desk inside the nurse’s treatment room holding a knife in her right hand.
She was taken to Cooma Hospital where she later died from an inoperable brain bleed.
Mr White will remain on bail until his trial.