A police officer accused of fatally tasering a 95-year-old girl will face trial within the NSW Supreme Court docket.
Kristian White, 33, appeared earlier than Cooma Native Court docket immediately, together with his solicitor indicating the senior constable would plead not responsible to manslaughter.
The court docket was informed all different expenses have been withdrawn, and White will subsequent seem on the Supreme Court docket to be arraigned on April 5.
Kristian White leaves Cooma Court docket.Credit score: James Brickwood
He stays on bail and was supported by his accomplice at court docket.
White is alleged to have used a stun gun on resident Clare Nowland at an aged care dwelling within the southern NSW city of Cooma within the early hours of Might 17, 2023.
Nowland died per week after being tasered in a nursing dwelling.
The 95-year-old girl, who weighed 43 kilograms and lived with dementia, was confronted whereas utilizing a strolling body and holding a steak knife.
She was repeatedly requested by workers, paramedics and police to drop the knife, a NSW Police assertion of information stated.
She was tasered and fell, hitting her head on the bottom. Nowland was taken to Cooma Hospital, the place she died on Might 24.
AAP