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