Taser cop Kristian White taking NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb to court after getting fired

The senior cop who was sacked for killing a 95-year-old grandmother with his Taser is taking his boss to court to try and get his job back.

Kristian James Samuel White, 34, is awaiting sentencing over his use of a stun gun on great-grandmother Clare Nowland in a nursing home in southern NSW in May 2023.

He was found guilty of manslaughter by a jury on November 27, prompting Commissioner Karen Webb to dismiss the senior constable earlier this month.

“I have determined that I do not have confidence in the officer’s suitability to continue as a police officer,” she said in a statement.

White had been suspended from duties with pay during his trial but was removed from the payroll a day after his guilty verdict.

But in a twist to the ongoing saga, another court matter for White popped up on Monday with the disgraced cop heading to the Industrial Relations Commission later this week to argue he’s been unfairly dismissed.

The Commission hears matters relating to NSW workplaces with White scheduled in for a conciliation hearing against his former boss, Commissioner Webb, later this week.

In a statement, NSW Police said it was aware of the case but was unable to comment further.

Webb’s decision to sack White was slammed by the grieving family of Clare Nowland last week, who said his termination was “too little, too late”.

Before telling the public about the termination, Webb spoke with Nowland’s family to notify them of the decision.

The family criticised the speed of the decision to “finally” terminate the 34-year-old’s employment.

“The Nowland family consider the decision to be too little, too late where the commissioner has had full access to all materials on which the jury last month found White guilty of the unlawful killing of Clare for over 12 months and chose to take no action,” lawyer Sam Tierney said on the family’s behalf.

The jury was told Nowland had symptoms of dementia so severe she would have been unable to comply with orders barked at her by White before being fatally tasered.

Police and paramedics were called to Nowland’s nursing home after the diminutive nonagenarian grabbed two steak knives from a kitchen and raised them against residents and staff before throwing one at a carer.

White pulled the Taser’s trigger after only three minutes of negotiations to get her to put down the remaining knife.

He was heard in video footage played at his trial saying “nah, bugger it” before shooting Nowland in the torso.

She hit her head on the floor as she fell and died at Cooma Hospital a week later.

“He never intended for Mrs Nowland to be harmed or injured,” White’s lawyers said after the jury’s verdict.

“He has never lost sight of the fact that Mrs Nowland passed away and he is acutely aware that the Nowland family is deeply hurt by what happened.”

White remains on bail after a failed crown detention application.

His sentence hearing is expected to be held in February.

You can catch the full update on Kristian White’s unfair dismissal fight tonight from 6pm on 7NEWS and 7Plus.