Senior Constable Kristian White tasered 95-year-old Clare Nowland, but the decision to find him guilty of manslaughter was whether or not his actions were reasonably necessary.
The time it took a jury to reach a verdict in the manslaughter trial of NSW Senior Constable Kristian White seems at odds with the fast-paced delivery of evidence, but suggests this case is far more complex than it appears.on its fifth day of deliberations after hearing eight days of evidence in a trial initially scheduled to run for four weeks.That the senior constable owed Mrs Nowland a duty of care was also undisputed.
White asserted that he was told by lodge staff that they were "threatened" by Mrs Nowland, but the Crown argued that language was inconsistent with the evidence heard over the course of the trial. White told the court he believed Mrs Nowland would stab anyone who neared her, but the Crown argued that she had not done so in the two hours she had knives with her and would not be physically capable of doing so, meaning she was not an imminent threat.The Crown suggested that White used the words "bugger it" before deploying his taser because he was "fed-up, impatient, not prepared to wait any longer".
The Crown challenged his justification for using the taser and asked why the officer did not back off given he had the ability to. The process of a police officer making an evaluation about when and what level of force to adopt was heard in this trial to be "a balancing act" and where the age, disability, and mental illness was to be factored in by the individual officer making the decision.
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