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Police officer Kristian White has pleaded not guilty to charges he Tasered 95-year-old great-grandmother Clare Nowland to death in her nursing home.
The 33-year-old NSW police officer appeared at the Supreme Court via video link on Friday, where he entered his formal plea and committed to stand trial on November 11 on a charge of manslaughter.
Mrs Nowland, a dementia sufferer who weighed just 43kg, was holding a steak knife as she “slowly” approached a police officer at Yallambee Lodge in May 2023.
NSW police officer Kristian White, 33, appeared at the Supreme Court via video link on Friday, where he entered his formal plea and pledged to stand trial on November 11 on a charge of manslaughter. involuntary.
Mrs Nowland, a dementia sufferer who weighed just 43kg, was holding a steak knife as she “slowly” approached a police officer at Yallambee Lodge in May 2023.
Mr Cnst White is alleged to have fired a Taser at Ms Nowland, causing her to fall to the ground, hit her head and suffer a brain haemorrhage.
Staff members at Yallambee Lodge reportedly called an ambulance shortly after 4am and the two police officers arrived shortly before 5am.
They discovered a frail Mrs Nowland sitting in a chair in front of a desk inside the nurses’ treatment room holding a knife in her right hand.
She was taken to Cooma Hospital, where she later died from an inoperable brain bleed.
White will remain free on bail until trial.