Clare Nowland's family still cannot believe that their 95-year-old matriarch was killed by a police officer, who remains free and challenges his resignation of the armed forces.
Former senior agent Kristian James Samuel White said 'Nah, Bugger It' before he 'got' her with his taser, grotesque words that Mrs. Nowland's daughter Gemma Murphy will pursle forever.
The great-grandmother wandered through the corridors of the Yallambee Lodge Aged-Care Home in the southern NSW city Cooma, before the police arrived in the early hours of 17 May 2023.
The older woman held a knife while using a walking frame and had ignored attempts from the staff to disarm her.
“She got an aggressive brutality … She was a helpless, defenseless, 95-year-old lady,” Mrs. Murphy told the NSW Supreme Court on Friday.
“My mother was so much more than” the grandmother who became Taserd, “she said, adding that her mother should be remembered as the remarkable woman she was.
“A beacon of love and strength and earning respect in her last years,” said Mrs. Murphy.
After hearing his mother, Michael Nowland wondered how someone could do that with a 'vulnerable 95-year-old lady', leaving her and helpless in a hospital bed.
Clare Nowland, 95, was deadly in the Yallambee Lodge Aged-Care Home in the southern NSW city Cooma on 17 May 2023
Kristian White, depicted outside the NSW Supreme Court on Friday, where he is waiting for conviction
“Just like me, nobody in the room could answer that question,” he said.
Mrs Nowland fell after he was struck with the taser bargen, bleeding on the brain and walked into the hospital a week later.
Several of her children and grandchildren have delivered emotional victim impact statements to the court while a judge prepares to condemn white after the unanimous guilty manslaughter of a jury in November.
Other statements were read by supporting officers.
They said that White's 'gutless', 'inhumane' and 'incomprehensible' actions robbed Mrs Nowland of a worthy death and her family to give her a good farewell.
Many said they could never forgive his actions and nobody said they had done that.
Since the verdict on bail, White has been freely mixed in the Coomoma community, spent Christmas with his family and occasionally encounters Mrs Nowland's beloved.
Since her death, the family has also had to deal with legal proceedings, which postponed her funeral and prevented them from saying about important media attention.
Mrs Nowland's family (depicted outside the NSW Supreme Court on Friday) delivered victim impact statements during the hearing of White
“It has been a whirlwind and we had no choice to be brought in,” Grandson Scott Nowland told the court.
One of the many grandchildren of Clare Nowland, who followed a work-related course on de-escalation, listened to the fatal death of his own grandmother who was used as an example of a poorly managed incident, the court was told.
Kym Lloyd said that the death of her grandmother and the grief of her family had been pulled by the fact that she was killed by a police officer, who required an investigation, a forensic autopsy and attracted considerable attention from the media and a broader community.
“The public care and they want to know, they too are shocked,” she said.
Repeatedly about the actions of White and telling their effects is emotional draining.
“Words cannot describe the anger I feel against you and your actions,” she told the officer in court.
White was removed from the NSW police in December, but he started legal steps for an assessment for the Industrial Relations Commission.
His hearing continues.
