A police officer may be taken into custody a day after he was found guilty of unlawfully killing a 95-year-old woman with his service Taser in a nursing home.

Senior Constable Kristian James Samuel White 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, 2023.

NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb has declared Senior Constable Kristian White’s employment is “under review” after he was found guilty of killing a 95-year-old woman in a nursing home while on duty.

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.

Australian police officer Kristian White used his Taser on Clare Nowland at her nursing home, in an incident that led to calls for an inquiry into police use of force.

A NSW Supreme Court jury has returned its verdict over the death of a great-grandmother who had a fatal confrontation with police in an aged care home.

A police officer in Australia who shocked a 95-year-old nursing home resident with a Taser was found guilty of her manslaughter on Wednesday. A jury found Sen Const Kristian James Samuel White guilty in the New South Wales Supreme Court in Sydney after 20 hours of deliberation.

An Australian police officer was found guilty Wednesday of the manslaughter of a 95-year-old woman, who died from injuries sustained when he tasered her during a nursing home confrontation.