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The Guardian // World

Clare Nowland’s son says decision not to imprison police officer who killed her a ‘slap on the wrist’

Friday 28th March 2025, 2:04AM

Kristian White was convicted of manslaughter over death of Nowland whom he shot with a Taser at a Cooma aged care home in 2023Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA judge’s decision not to send Kristian White to jail for the manslaughter of Clare Nowland is “a slap on the wrist for someone that’s killed our mother”, according to the 95-year-old’s son.Justice Ian Harrison handed down his sentencing decision for the former New South Wales police officer in the NSW supreme court on Friday, saying the incident in his opinion “falls in the lower end of objective seriousness” for manslaughter and that time in prison would be a “disproportionate” sentence. Continue reading...

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