‘different When There’s A Knife Raised At You’: Officer Feared Clare Nowland Would Stab Her Before Taser Deployed

Paramedic witness tells Sen Const Kristian White’s manslaughter trial that 95-year-old Nowland ‘didn’t appear to acknowledge’ warnings or instructions

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A police officer who tried to disarm a 95-year-old nursing home resident who had a steak knife has told a court she feared she would be stabbed – and was “comfortable” with her partner’s decision to draw a Taser.

Acting Sgt Jess Pank, who appeared in the New South Wales supreme court on Thursday, responded to the call-out from a Snowy Mountains nursing home about a resident carrying a knife alongside Sen Const Kristian James Samuel White.

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