Kristian White Tasered 95-year-old in Cooma nursing home after she refused to drop knife. He has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter
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A court has seen video footage of a police officer Tasering a 95-year-old to disarm her in a nursing home before she fell to the ground and sustained a head injury that ultimately killed her.
The police body-worn camera shows great-grandmother Clare Nowland sitting in a chair in an office at the Snowy Mountains nursing home in checkered pyjamas in the early hours of the morning in May 2023.
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