<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A former police officer who fatally tasered a 95-year-old aged-care resident while on duty will remain free after a failed legal bid to jail him.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Then-senior constable Kristian James Samuel White, 35, fired his Taser at Clare Nowland after being called to Yallambee Lodge nursing home at Cooma in southern </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/new-south-wales" rel="" target="" title="NSW"><span>NSW</span></a><span> on May 17, 2023.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>During the brief, two-minute and 40-second encounter, White drew his stun gun and pointed it at Nowland for a minute before saying "nah, bugger it" and discharging the weapon at her chest.</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><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-files-us-president-says-virginia-giuffre-was-stolen-from-mar-a-lago/e92fad6e-bd41-476b-af8b-3780d8ff547d" target="_blank"><strong><span>Trump says Epstein 'stole' Virginia Giuffre from Mar-A-Lago spa</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The 48kg great-grandmother, who had symptoms of dementia, fell and hit her head.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She did not regain consciousness and died in hospital a week later after a fatal brain bleed.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>White </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="was given a two-year good behaviour bond in March"><span>was given a two-year good behaviour bond in March</span></a><span> and ordered to complete community service after a jury found him guilty of manslaughter at a NSW Supreme Court trial.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/kristian-white-updates-nsw-police-officer-who-tasered-great-gran-spared-jail-again/dbd1d727-055c-415f-ab7c-e7644412aa35" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/new-york-city-gunman-who-killed-4-at-manhattan-office-building-was-targeting-nfl-headquarters-mayor-says/24a4712b-ee02-469a-9195-07edb9a12359" target="_blank"><strong><span>Gunman who killed four at Manhattan office building 'was targeting NFL headquarters'</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>This was despite prosecutors telling Justice Ian Harrison the 35-year-old should be jailed for his crime.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>On Wednesday, three judges from the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal upheld the imposed sentence, dismissing the prosecution's legal challenge.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>At an appeal hearing in June, NSW Director of Public Prosecutions Sally Dowling SC argued Justice Harrison's sentence was "manifestly inadequate" and that jail time was warranted.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She argued that the judge erroneously found that sending a strong warning to other police officers had only a minor role to play in sentencing.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But White's barrister Troy Edwards SC argued general deterrence had no role to play because his client made an error in judgment by believing Nowland posed a threat that justified the use of a Taser.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He said it was "nonsense" to think a police officer who held a similarly honest but unreasonable belief would be deterred from deploying their Taser as a consequence of White's sentence.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong></strong><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 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