The fate of the senior constable who discharged his stun gun on the great-grandmother lies with 12 jurors.
Twelve jurors will return to court for their first full day discussing whether a New South Wales police officer who fatally tasered a 95-year-old holding a knife should be convicted or acquitted of manslaughter.
The 34-year-old officer discharged his stun gun at Clare Nowland in a treatment room at Yallambee Lodge aged-care home in the southern NSW town of Cooma during the early hours of May 17, last year.Senior Constable Kristian James Samuel White is accused of the manslaughter of Clare Nowland. A jury at the NSW Supreme Court will reconvene today to decide his fate. .
Nowland, who was holding a steak knife at the time, fell backwards and hit her head before dying a week later in hospital. Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield SC called on jurors to find White guilty, saying his actions were "utterly unnecessary and obviously dangerous".
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