{"id":134665,"date":"2023-11-29T05:01:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T05:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/?p=134665"},"modified":"2023-11-29T05:01:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T05:01:34","slug":"senior-constable-who-tasered-granny-is-charged-with-manslaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/world-news\/senior-constable-who-tasered-granny-is-charged-with-manslaughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior constable who Tasered granny is charged with manslaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Senior constable who Tasered 95-year-old granny Clare Nowland in NSW is charged with manslaughter<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Senior constable who tasered Clare Nowland charged with manslaughter<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Kristian White, 33, has been suspended without pay since incident in May\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>READ MORE: Alleged exchange between police and Clare Nowland revealed<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The senior constable who Tasered 95-year-old great grandmother Clare Nowland has been charged with manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Nowland, a dementia sufferer who weighs just 43kg, had been holding a steak knife when she &#8216;slowly&#8217; approached a police officer at the Yallambee Lodge in southern NSW\u00a0in May of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Constable Kristian White, 33, then blasted a taser on Mrs Nowland, prompting her to collapse to the ground, knock her head and suffer a bleed to the brain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>Seven days after the incident, her death was confirmed, with relatives saying she died surrounded by her family in Cooma Hospital.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The charge of manslaughter is in addition to charges laid in May that were recklessly causing grievous bodily harm, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and common assault.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a statement NSW Police said: &#8216;Following advice from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, State Crime Command&#8217;s Homicide Squad have today laid an additional charge of Manslaughter against a 33-year-old Senior Constable attached to the Monaro Police District.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This legal process was served on the officer&#8217;s legal representative this morning.<span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;The officer who remains suspended from duty with pay will next appear at the Cooma Local Court on Wednesday 6 December 2023 for Mention.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/24\/09\/71346805-12118733-image-a-6_1684917195848.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Clare Nowland (pictured, after she participated in a skydive in 2008) had been holding a steak knife when she &#8216;slowly&#8217; approached the police officer before she was Tasered on May 17<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/28\/23\/78349245-12802325-image-a-62_1701213374412.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Senior constable Kristian White White (pictured with his partner at Cooma Local Court)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/28\/23\/78349347-12802325-image-a-67_1701213469954.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Mrs Nowland was farewelled by loved ones at St Patricks Church in Cooma in June (pictured)<\/p>\n<p>It comes after body-worn camera footage revealed the alleged exchange between Constable White and Mrs Nowland on the night she was Tasered.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her family has launched civil proceedings against the state government in the wake of her death with a statement of claim launched in court.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The executor of Mrs Nowland&#8217;s estate alleged NSW Police acted unreasonably and had attempted to downplay what had happened in front of Yallambee Lodge staff.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Constable White or his fellow officer, Sergeant Rachel Pank, are listed as defendants in the court documents &#8211; which contained a detailed account of what allegedly happened on May 17.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE: Top cop refuses to answer the one question Australia wants answered after police officer tasered 95-year-old great-grandmother<\/h3>\n<p>Yallambee Lodge staff members reportedly called an ambulance just after 4am that morning with the two police officers arriving just before 5am.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They discovered a frail Mrs Nowland sitting in a chair at a desk inside the nurse&#8217;s treatment room holding a knife in her right hand.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to evidence allegedly gathered from body-worn police cameras, the family&#8217;s statement of claim alleges that at 5.08am the two officers put on slash proof gloves and discussed disarming Mrs Nowland.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Actually would it be an idea to get her out where we can just grab the knife off her,&#8217; Senior Constable White allegedly said in the footage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I feel like I could do it right now,&#8217; Sergeant Rachel Pank replied.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Nowland was then asked to drop the knife several times by the police officers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Oi, we&#8217;re not playing this game Clare, you&#8217;re going to put that down,&#8217; Constable White said in a transcript of the footage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This is your first warning. You see this. This is a taser. Drop it now,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;See, you keep coming, you&#8217;re going to get tasered.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Stop now. Don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m going to give you another warning.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/28\/22\/71290381-12802325-Ms_Nowland_pictured_tragically_died_after_she_was_Tasered_by_an_-a-59_1701211706411.jpg\" height=\"870\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Mrs Nowland (pictured) tragically died after she was Tasered and suffered a bleed to the brain<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/28\/22\/71347533-12118733-The_Yallambee_Lodge_in_Southern_NSW_where_the_Taser_incident_occ-a-2_1701210857193.jpg\" height=\"428\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The Yallambee Lodge in Southern NSW where the Taser incident occurred is pictured<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/28\/23\/78349285-12802325-image-a-68_1701213612520.jpg\" height=\"951\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Mourners are seen embracing each other at a funeral service for Mrs Nowland in June<\/p>\n<p>Less than a minute later it is alleged White said: &#8216;Bugger it&#8217; and fired the taser from two metres away, causing Clare to tumble from her walker and hit her head.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Clare come on. You&#8217;re all right. Talk to us Clare,&#8217; the officers allegedly said after the 95-year-old fell down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Are you OK? Is your head all right Clare?&#8217; Sergeant Pank asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Didn&#8217;t expect it to be like that,&#8217; Pank then says, said according to the transcript.<\/p>\n<p>The Nowland family claims the officers&#8217; discussion of the incident while Clare was on the floor was &#8216;demeaning, dismissive (and) self-serving&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They claim neither officer &#8216;apologised or expressed any regret or remorse&#8217; to the family and alleged Constable White fired the taser their loved one was elderly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He knew or ought to have known Clare represented a low threat to himself \u2026 and presented a very small risk of injury to other persons,&#8217; the family&#8217;s claim alleges.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The actions of White were grossly disproportionate and excessive use of force.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Constable White is scheduled to next appear in Cooma Local Court on December 6.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12802325\/Senior-constable-Tasered-95-year-old-granny-Claire-Nowland-NSW-charged-manslaughter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior constable who Tasered 95-year-old granny Clare Nowland in NSW is charged with manslaughter Senior constable who tasered Clare Nowland&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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