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Jury still considering verdict for cop who tasered 95yo

After its first full day of deliberations, a jury has not decided if a police officer who tasered a 95-year-old will be convicted or acquitted of manslaughter.

Jury verdict still to come for cop who tasered 95yo

Jury verdict still to come for cop who tasered 95yo

A jury has gone home for the day after three hours of deliberations failed to produce a verdict for a police officer who tasered an elderly woman.

Police officer who tasered Clare Nowland tells court taking knife from her hand came with ‘high risk’

Police officer who tasered Clare Nowland tells court taking knife from her hand came with ‘high risk’

Sen Const Kristian White says situation with 95-year-old carrying knife ‘was not going to be resolved without the use of force’

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'Not the frailest I've seen': cop who tasered woman, 95

An elderly woman holding a knife was not meant to die after being tasered for being a threat as she approached police officers and paramedics, a jury has heard.

A 95-year-old woman died after being tasered in a NSW aged care home. Was it manslaughter?

Police bodycam footage of Clare Nowland moving slowly with the help of a walking frame has been played at the trial of Sen Const Kristian White

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Kristian White said ‘I’ve had a look and, supposedly, we aren’t meant to tase elderly people’, court hears

NSW senior constable on trial for manslaughter of Clare Nowland hadn’t been trained on ‘exceptional circumstances’ when Taser should not be used, trial told

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Cop who tasered elderly woman should have 'evaluated'

Police should aim to use the least amount of force necessary when conducting their duties, a trial over the tasering death of an elderly woman has been told.

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‘Different when there’s a knife raised at you’: officer feared Clare Nowland would stab her before Taser deployed

Witness tells Sen Const Kristian White’s manslaughter trial that 95-year-old Nowland ‘didn’t appear to acknowledge’ warnings or instructions

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Cops 'did their best' by tasering great-grandmother

Cops 'did their best' by tasering great-grandmother

A police officer who attended a nursing home when a 95-year-old with dementia symptoms was tasered told colleagues that was the best they could have done.

“Absolutely Inhumane”: Cop Who Fatally Tasered 95YO Woman In Nursing Home Reveals Reason

“Absolutely Inhumane”: Cop Who Fatally Tasered 95YO Woman In Nursing Home Reveals Reason

"Inhumane." An Australian police officer is facing trial for fatally tasering a 95-year-old woman. His defense argues that the woman was dangerous and was armed with a knife. The post “Absolutely Inhumane”: Cop Who Fatally Tasered 95YO Woman In Nursing Home Reveals Reason first appeared on Bored Panda.

Nurse at aged care home where Clare Nowland was tasered had ‘never seen anything like that’, court hears

Nurse at aged care home where Clare Nowland was tasered had ‘never seen anything like that’, court hears

Sen Const Kristian White’s manslaughter trial also told 95-year-old displayed behaviour consistent with moderate to severe dementia

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Nurse's alarm as cop tasered 95-year-old great-gran

Nurse's alarm as cop tasered 95-year-old great-gran

A nurse's curiosity when a police officer pulled out his Taser turned to concern when he used it on an elderly woman holding a knife, a court has been told.

Afternoon Update: questions over Bondi Junction alarm delay; ‘severe storms’ on the way; and Australia’s punk pioneers

Afternoon Update: questions over Bondi Junction alarm delay; ‘severe storms’ on the way; and Australia’s punk pioneers

Inquest into April 13 attack at Westfield shopping centre will run for five weeks from April 2025

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NSW police officer said ‘got her … grab it’ after Tasering Clare Nowland in nursing home, court hears

NSW police officer said ‘got her … grab it’ after Tasering Clare Nowland in nursing home, court hears

Kristian White Tasered 95-year-old in Cooma nursing home after she refused to drop knife. He has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter

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'Got her': cop yells after tasering great-grandmother

An aged-care resident armed with a steak knife was told she was "going to get tased" before a police officer fired his weapon on her.

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Police officer who tasered Clare Nowland, 95, claims he wanted to avoid ‘violent confrontation’

Kristian White, 34, formally pleads not guilty in NSW supreme court at start of trial that could last three weeks into 2023 nursing home tasering

'I needed to': cop defends tasering aged-care resident

A police officer told a colleague he had to taser a 95-year-old woman armed with a steak knife to prevent violence in an aged-care home, a jury has heard.

Trial set for cop charged over grandma's taser death

A NSW police officer has denied unlawfully killing a 95-year-old woman with dementia, who was tasered while holding a knife.

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Cop to argue reasonable force in 95yo's taser death

Senior Constable Kristian White is due to face trial for the manslaughter of great-grandmother Clare Nowland, who died after being tasered at an aged-care home.

Cop who tasered gran pleads not guilty to manslaughter

A police officer who tasered a great-grandmother who later died has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and awaits a four-week trial.

Break pattern of mental health police killings: coroner

Police killings of people with mental health needs can no longer be addressed individually when a pattern of deaths has become so clear, a coroner has found.

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Transport, housing and cost of living: how has Labor fared in its first year in power in NSW?

While the Minns government has made strides on wages, many of its promises – on renting, buses and the environment – remain unfulfilled

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Morning Mail: mulch company’s court move, Biden proposes aid port for Gaza, nuclear power challenges

Greenlife Resource will argue that contamination case should be dismissed; US forces will build a temporary port to deliver aid to Palestinians

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Clare Nowland: family of 95-year-old woman Tasered by NSW police settle civil case with state

Relatives sued when the elderly woman died from injuries after being subdued with a stun gun at an aged care home in Cooma

'Confidential' end to tasered gran's suit against state

A civil claim from the family of a 95-year-old woman who died after tasered will not continue, as a police officer faces criminal charges.

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