A signed up nurse working graveyard shift at a retirement home when a law enforcement officer tasered a local stated she was “extremely, extremely worried” when the weapon was utilized on the lady. Senior Constable Kristian James Samuel White shot his stun weapon at great-grandmother Clare Nowland at Yallambee Lodge in the southern NSW town of Cooma in the early hours of May 17, 2023. SEE THE VIDEO ABOVE: CCTV exposes last minutes before Clare Nowland tasered. Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today The 95-year-old hit her head on the flooring when she fell and had an unusable bleed on the brain, passing away at Cooma Hospital a week later on. White, who states he acted legally under his responsibilities as a law enforcement officer, went back to his NSW Supreme Court trial on Wednesday. Great-grandmother Clare Nowland at Yallambee Lodge before she was tasered. Credit: 7NEWS Registered nurse Rosaline Baker had actually been operating at the aged-care home for simply over 2 weeks when she called triple-0 relating to Nowland. She stated she had actually formerly attempted to get Nowland out of 3 other citizens’ spaces about 3am after the great-grandmother got 2 steak knives and a container of prunes from a kitchen area. White and Acting Sergeant Rachel Pank showed up on the scene after 2 paramedics. They looked for the great-grandmother with Baker, discovering her in a treatment space. Rosaline Baker states she did not understand what the Taser was when it was taken out by a law enforcement officer. Credit: Bianca De Marchi/AAP Clare Nowland passed away after she was tasered by a law enforcement officer in her Cooma aged care home. Credit: AAP When the 34-year-old senior constable took out his Taser, the nurse stated she did not understand what it was and was “type of curious”. “In my years of experience as a nurse, nearly 50 years, I’ve never ever seen anything like that,” she informed the court. She then heard a loud sound and saw Nowland get struck. “I was really, extremely worried when she was being up to the ground,” Baker stated. Kristian White states he acted legally when he tasered a senior female bring a knife. Credit: Steve Markham/AAP In video footage used Tuesday, Nowland seems concealing from authorities and paramedics as they reached the home. Later on, White might be seen yelling orders at Nowland as she mixed forward while grasping a steak knife and her walker from within a treatment space. “You keep coming, you’re going to get tased,” the officer informed her before he fired. Baker explained her sensations previously that night when Nowland had actually raised a knife at her in the retirement home’s dark passages. “Were you terrified or worried when that knife was pointed at you?” crown district attorney Brett Hatfield SC asked. “No, I was worried about her walking around to other locations and other spaces, that something might take place to other citizens,” she stated. Intensifying behaviour Earlier on Wednesday, geriatrician Professor Susan Kurrle informed the jury she detected Nowland with moderate to reasonably serious dementia at the time she was tasered. While still mobile on her four-wheeled walker, the 95-year-old would have been not able to comprehend what was taking place around her or adhere to directions, she stated. Kurrle stated Nowland’s behaviour had actually intensified in the 3 months before her death. “She was continuously resistant to any modifications or anything they asked her to do and she didn’t appear to comprehend,” the specialist stated. “With hindsight, it’s extremely clear that the signs and indications were establishing over that time.” Nowland displayed anti-social behaviour in early 2023, consisting of taking locals’ food, attempting to undress in social locations, troubling citizens in their spaces, roaming around in the cold and dark and contradicting personnel support, the jury heard. The court was played CCTV video footage of 3 events at Yallambee Lodge in March and April 2023, when the 95-year-old physically snapped, rammed one employee with her walker and climbed up an embankment and got stuck in a tree. She was confessed to health center on April 16 and recommended the anti-psychotic drug Risperdal to relax her aggressive behaviour after punching and biting personnel. Under questioning by defence lawyer Troy Edwards SC, Prof Kurrle confessed Nowland’s behaviour in the minutes before she was tasered might have arised from personnel choosing to lower the dose of Risperdal 2 days in the past. The trial advances Thursday.
CCTV exposes last minutes before police tasered 95-year-old great-grandmother Clare Nowland
