The court also heard witness statements from two elderly men who lived at the nursing home where Nowland was Tasered. They both described how at some point during the evening of the incident, Nowland had entered their rooms.

The man said he was then taken out of the room, and returned around half an hour later after he was told Nowland was no longer inside.

A court has seen video footage of a police officer Tasering a 95-year-old to disarm her in a nursing home before she fell to the ground and sustained a head injury that ultimately killed her.

The other, who was 84 years old, said in his statement that Nowland had waved a knife around while nurses tried to get her out of his room.

Kristian White Tasered 95-year-old in Cooma nursing home after she refused to drop knife. He has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter

After calling the incident in on her police radio, Pank is heard saying in the video: “Unfortunately that is how it had it go. I was thinking, I could just grab it, but it was a bit too sharp … I thought surely I can hit it out her hand.”

The police body-worn camera shows great-grandmother Clare Nowland sitting in a chair in an office at the Snowy Mountains nursing home in checkered pyjamas in the early hours of the morning in May 2023.

Nowland is told repeatedly by police, paramedics, and home staff to stay sitting down and drop the serrated knife she was carrying as she tries to stand up.

She told the court she had concluded Nowland died of blunt force trauma to the head and complications. The court heard the autopsy found Nowland had bruising and bleeds in part of her brain and a laceration that penetrated her brain

White’s barrister, Troy Edwards SC, has told the court that it is not in dispute that the injuries caused by White Tasering Nowland ultimately killed her. But he argued that White’s use of the Taser involved a reasonable use of force.

Under cross-examination by Edwards, the officer was asked if the purpose of using a Taser was to briefly incapacitate a person rather than achieve compliance through pain.

“I would love to have that knife, are you able to put that on a table for me?” a paramedic says in the video which was played at Sen Const Kristian James Samuel White’s manslaughter trial in the New South Wales supreme court on Tuesday.

He then repeatedly asks her to put down the knife and says: “This is your first warning.” He then discharges a warning shot from the Taser and says: “Don’t get me to give you another warning.”

The video shows White, Sgt Rachel Pank, and the paramedics rushing to support Nowland while she lies on the ground. White says: “Clare c’mon, you’re alright.”

Nowland is survived by eight children, 24 grandchildren and 31 great-grandchildren – many of whom have been attending the trial.

Prosecutor Brett Hatfield SC has argued that White was guilty of manslaughter by way of criminal negligence or by way of an unlawful and dangerous act.

Nowland then stands up and uses her walking frame to slowly move towards the door. After she is asked multiple times to sit down and not come closer, she raises the knife for a moment and then rests her hand again on her walker.

After Nowland raises the knife again, White says “na, bugger it”, fires his Taser and then says “got her … grab it”, the video played in court shows.

A senior technical officer for the NSW police, who appeared as a witness, told the court that White discharged a visual and sound warning before firing the Taser.

One, a 90-year-old man, said in a statement that he saw two knives in Nowland’s hand, which was rested on her walking frame. He said he attempted to usher her out of the room until a nurse came to help.