Former NSW senior constable, Kristian White, has avoided a jail term for the manslaughter of Cooma grandmother, Clare Nowland.
White was sentenced to a community corrections order for two years by Justice Ian Harrison in the NSW Supreme Court today, Friday 28 March. One of the conditions of the order is to complete 425 hours of community service.
Justice Harrison said the crime fell at the 'lower' end of objective seriousness for a manslaughter case. Justice Harrison said White posed no risk to the community and a custodial sentence for a police officer would be 'unduly onerous' due to being placed in protective isolation.
Justice Harrison, in his further reasoning to not give a prison sentence, said White has already suffered some punishment through losing his employment and becoming an unwelcome person in the Cooma community. Justice Harrison also said White was also unlikely to re-offend.
White was found guilty of manslaughter by a jury in December 2024 for tasering 95-year-old Mrs Nowland in her Yallambee Lodge residence in Cooma.
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White, a Cooma-based senior constable, tasered Mrs Nowland on 17 May, 2023. Mrs Nowland was using a walking frame and holding a knife when White tasered the great-grandmother.
Mrs Nowland died a week later in Cooma Hospital.
