<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The son and daughter of Clare Nowland have spoken exclusively to 9News after </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/kristian-white-grandma-taser-death-cop-face-rare-sentence/c8e65314-bf7b-4e31-9cce-96b35278f563" rel="" target="_blank" title="former NSW police officer Kristian White was spared jail"><span>former NSW police officer Kristian White was spared jail</span></a><span> over the 95-year-old's manslaughter last week.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It's been more than two years since Clare Nowland was tasered at Yallambee Lodge, her nursing home in Cooma, southern NSW.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Two of her oldest children were determined to stay silent until justice was done.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/val-kilmer-death-batman-actor-dies-aged-65/f11eaf7b-9584-4302-8b81-c0eda8c1898f"><strong><span>Hollywood star dies at just 65 after battle with pneumonia</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Last week, they were left devastated by the news that White won't be serving any time behind bars for the manslaughter of the 95-year-old.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Asked whether they think White should be in prison, Nowland's son Michael said: "Absolutely."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"For a deliberate, inhumane act that he did, absolutely," Michael told 9News.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/kristian-white-clare-nowland-updates-family-speaks-after-kristian-white-avoids-jail/95beafd0-75cd-4508-8ad7-f6e8a1ad2f11" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"He had control of that weapon, he loaded the weapon, he pointed the weapon and discharged the weapon."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/woman-accused-of-torturing-girl-seeks-access-to-doctors-specialist-medical-evidence-brisbane-queensland-courts/3fdb94eb-8602-4f92-adf8-e5c6db7cf04f"><strong><span>Woman accused of torturing girl seeks medical evidence</span></strong></a><strong><span></span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"At 95, we could accept our mother would die," Nowland's daughter Lesley Lloyd said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Even though I believe she had quite a few years to go.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"But to go the way she has, it's just unacceptable, it's just something I'll never ever get over.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It's just been a weight on me for the last two years.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I just can't be myself, I don't think. It's just awful."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/three-women-injured-in-dingo-attack-on-queenslands-kgari-faser-island/36af033c-7c62-4381-b251-dca6e7ef1478" rel="" target="_blank" title="Three women injured in dingo attack on K'gari"><strong><span>Three women injured in dingo attack on K'gari</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>White was handed a two-year community corrections order and ordered to complete 425 hours of community service.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Nowland was wandering her Cooma nursing home with a knife in the early hours of May 2023.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She suffered from dementia and relied on a walking frame.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The officer negotiated with her for less than three minutes, before he fired the Taser.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Today, Nowland's children said she must have been terrified, and that she didn't pose a threat to anyone.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Lesley Lloyd, spoke about being called by the nursing home about an hour before Nowland was Tasered.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She said she was told everything was under control.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She said never in her wildest imagination did she think it would end up like this.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></em></strong></a><strong><em><span>: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. 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