Judge to hear further argument about whether former officer should be jailed after fatally tasering dementia patient in Cooma nursing home in 2023

A now former police officer who fatally tasered a 95-year-old dementia patient in New South Wales could receive a jail term when he faces a sentence hearing.

Kristian James Samuel White was found guilty of manslaughter after tasering Clare Nowland at Yallambee Lodge aged-care home in the southern NSW town of Cooma in the early hours of 17 May 2023.

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