An Australian police officer has been found guilty of manslaughter after he tastered a knife-wielding grandmother last year.
Chief Constable Kristian White told the woman to put the knives down 21 times A police officer who tasered a 95-year-old woman in an Australia n care home has been found guilty of manslaughter. Great-grandmother Clare Nowland had left her room at the Yallambee Lodge care home outside of Canberra, Australia , with two steak knives in May of last year. She took the knives into another resident’s room, who said he did not feel threatened, before throwing one of the knives at a member of staff.
White said he decided to use his taser because a ‘violent confrontation was imminent,’ but he was this week found guilty of manslaughter by a jury in Sydney. The jury deliberated for some 20 hours before eventually convicting the officer. The court was shown video footage of the incident, in which White could be heard telling the great-grandmother to put down the knife down 21 times before he eventually tasered her.
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