Killer cop Kristian White who fatally Tasered 95-year-old great-granny Clare Nowland faces being sent to Australia’s top secret Long Bay prison

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The police officer who Tasered a 95-year-old grandmother to death in her care home will be taken to Australia’s most secret prison if he is sentenced to full-time prison next year.

Plans have already been made for Kristian White to be housed in the Special Purpose Center (SPC) within Sydney’s Long Bay prison complex after he was found guilty of the manslaughter of Clare Nowland.

The SPC houses NSW’s most vulnerable inmates and is so far off-grid with most Correctional Services staff unable to access information about who is there.

Sometimes known as The Kennel for the number of ‘dogs’ (or informants) it houses, once inmates enter the brick walls of the SPC, their whereabouts no longer appear on the Correctional Services computer system.

While the Goulburn High Risk Management Correctional Facility, known as Supermax, contains prisoners who pose a danger to staff and other inmates, the SPC stores those who are at extreme risk of physical harm.

Instead of being referred to by name or the Master Index Number (MIN) that each prisoner receives when they first enter custody, SPC occupants are identified internally by a number following the letter P.

“It’s basically for inmates who can’t be placed anywhere else because they would be killed,” a prison source told Daily Mail Australia.

The SPC, which received its first inmates in February 1989, was built at a cost of $18.5 million to house offenders who required special protection, such as police officers, judicial officers and Crown witnesses.

It currently houses about 30 prisoners out of a prison population of 13,000.

A retired senior corrections officer who had never been inside the facility despite working in the New South Wales prison system for decades said few Correctional Services employees were familiar with the place.

“All inmates are identified by a number, not by name,” he said.

‘I always thought of the place as a “luxury cemetery.” Basically this is a very expensive protection unit.

Accused cop killer Beau Lamarre-Condon was transferred there about six months ago after a period under strict segregation inside the Metropolitan Detention and Reception Center in Silverwater.

Prison authorities considered him potentially at risk because he was accused of extremely serious crimes, had attracted significant media attention and had never been in prison before.

Lamarre-Condon is accused of murdering former Studio Ten presenter Jesse Baird and Qantas flight attendant Luke Davies. in Paddington on February 19 and has not yet entered a plea.

While the case moves through the courts, the fired senior constable can expect to remain in his current location.

Lamarre-Condon was dismissed from the New South Wales Police in March. White was fired by Police Commissioner Karen Webb on December 3.

The senior officer discharged his Taser at Ms Nowland at the Yallambee Lodge aged care facility in Cooma, southern New South Wales, in the early hours of May 17 last year.

The great-grandmother, who was wielding a knife and suffering from signs of undiagnosed dementia, fell and hit her head on the floor. He died in Cooma Hospital a week later.

A Supreme Court jury found White guilty of manslaughter on November 27 and two days later Judge Ian Harrison rejected an attempt by the Crown to refuse bail for 34 years until his sentencing.

White’s lawyer, Troy Edwards SC, had argued against the Crown’s position that a prison sentence for the police officer was inevitable.

Judge Harrison said that while he did not want to give White “unjustified hopes,” he was not prepared to say he would eventually sentence him to full-time prison.

The judge said it was not in question that police officers faced the threat of violence in jail, but that White’s circumstances were not special or exceptional.

Detective Sergeant Mitchell Bosworth of the Homicide Squad had prepared a statement for the arrest application detailing what would happen to White if he was refused bail or eventually jailed.

Firstly, he would be escorted by officers attached to the Correctional Services Special Operations Group from the Supreme Court directly to the MRRC, where he would be classified as “not associated with protection”.

Acting Correctional Services Commissioner Leon Taylor would then be asked to approve White’s placement in the SPC, according to advice attached to Detective Sergeant Bosworth’s statement.

Wayne Astill, who is serving a maximum sentence of 23 years for raping 14 female inmates while he was a correctional officer at Dillwynia Correctional Center, has called the SPC home since shortly after his arrest in February 2019.

Former NSW Crime Commission deputy chief Mark Standen, who was jailed over a $120 million drug plot, spent most of his 16 years behind bars at the SPC before his release in June.

Former boxer Fortunato ‘Lucky’ Gattellari found himself at the SPC after becoming the Crown’s star witness against property developer Ron Medich, who ordered the 2009 contract murder of his business rival Michael McGurk.

Gattellari left the SPC in December 2019 after serving a nine-year sentence for organizing McGurk’s murder and attempting to extort Medich.

Former Federal Court Judge Marcus Einfeld served time at the SPC after being found guilty of perjury and perverting the course of justice for claiming that a dead woman was driving his car when he received a speeding ticket.

The SPC sometimes even takes offenders that smaller states can’t keep safe, such as Perth cyclist Sid ‘Snot’ Reid, who turned on his fellow Gypsy Joker riders.

Reid became perhaps Australia’s most infamous supergrass after being arrested for the 2001 firebombing murders of former Western Australian CIB boss Don Hancock and his friend Lou Lewis.

Rapist and prison informant Fred Many spent his final years of incarceration at the SPC, while gangster Neddy Smith spent a long period there after cooperating with the ICAC in the early 1990s.

Swedish model Charlotte Lindstrom, who tried to hire a hitman to kill two witnesses testifying against her drug-dealing fiancé, was another notorious SPC resident.

Judge Harrison will hear sentencing submissions in February before deciding White’s fate.