Kristian White was sentenced to 450 hours of community service and placed under the supervision of a corrections officer for two years for manslaughter.

“Mr. White made by what any measure was a terrible mistake,” Justice Ian Harrison said in the New South Wales state Supreme Court.

Prosecutors had called for a prison term in the killing of Clare Nowland, a great-grandmother who suffered dementia, but the judge said such a punishment was disproportionate.

“It is … at the lower end of seriousness of crimes amounting to wrongful death,” Harrison said.

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    5 days ago

    I heard about an aussie officer serving a few years for shooting a running suspect in the back with a taser.

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      4 days ago

      I’d like to see a source for that, because that definitely sounds like nonsense.