A police officer was found guilty of manslaughter for fatally shocking a 95-year-old woman with a Taser at a nursing home in Australia.
A police officer who fatally shocked a 95-year-old woman with a Taser in an Australian nursing home has been found guilty of manslaughter.
READ MORE: Investigators believe body of 'disappeared' IRA victim has been found in another person's grave She had, at one point entered the room of another care home resident while holding the knives, but he told the court he did not feel unsafe. The great-grandmother fell backwards and struck her head, sustaining injuries equivalent to blunt force trauma. She died a week later from inoperable bleeding on the brain.
Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield told jurors: "Who could she have injured at that moment? No one." The prosecutor alleged that White was "not prepared to wait any longer". The officer argued in a written report that he had fired his Taser as he felt a "violent confrontation was imminent".
POLICE OFFICER TASER MANSLAUGHTER NURSING HOME AUSTRALIA
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