The Director of Public Prosecutors plans to challenge the sentence given to former police officer Kristian White for the manslaughter of Clare Nowland. They believe the community corrections order he received is “clearly insufficient”.

The son and daughter of Clare Nowland have spoken exclusively to 9News after White was spared jail over the 95-year-old’s death last week.

It’s been more than two years since Clare Nowland was tasered at Yulambi Lodge, her nursing home in Cooma, southern NSW.

White was handed a two-year community corrections order and ordered to complete 425 hours of community service.

Nowland was wandering her Cooma nursing home with a knife in the early hours of May 2023.

She suffered from dementia and relied on a walking frame.

The officer negotiated with her for less than three minutes, before he fired the Taser.

Today, Nowland’s children said she must have been terrified, and that she didn’t pose a threat to anyone.

Lesley Lloyd, spoke about being called by the nursing home about an hour before Nowland was Tasered.

She said she was told everything was under control.

She said never in her wildest imagination did she think it would end up like this.

Kristian White hasn’t been seen since the sentence, and will now be waiting to find out what an appeal might mean for his freedom.