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.

  • -☂️-@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    i dont think it justifies it. a trained cop can easily wrestle a knife from a 95-yr old.

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      3 days ago

      Anyone with a heavy blanket could do it, though the fall and head injury risk might be kinda similar.

      They use big mattress things in Japan I think.

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        3 days ago

        pulling the trigger on a taser and killing your granny is also pretty easy apparently