A prosecutor has told a hearing in the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal a former police officer gave a 95-year-old grandmother "no way" to avoid being tasered.
Kristian White, now 35, was found guilty of manslaughter by a Supreme Court jury last November, and in March was sentenced to a two-year community correction order and 425 hours of community service.
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions filed an appeal against the sentence on four grounds, including that it was "manifestly inadequate".
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the guys deserves a fitting headline. if anybody else had killed a non-aggressive dottery old lady with a taser they would be sentenced to a severe penalty of at least 20 yeas in the bin. the fact that White was a police should not affect his sentence imo. even though he was in the aged care facility in his professional capacity, his actions were entirely inappropriate and outrageous.
