It is “realistically inevitable” that a police officer will be jailed over the manslaughter of a 95-year-old woman with the service Taser in a nursing home, a Crown prosecutor has told a court.

Senior Constable Kristian White tasered 95-year-old Clare Nowland, but the decision to find him guilty of manslaughter was whether or not his actions were reasonably necessary.

Senior Constable Kristian James Samuel White discharged his stun gun at Clare Nowland in a treatment room at Yallambee Lodge aged-care home in the southern NSW town of Cooma during the early hours of May 17, 2023.