New Delhi, July 30 -- A former police officer who killed a 95-year-old nursing home resident with a stun gun remains free after an Australian appeals court on Wednesday dismissed a prosecutor's bid to have him imprisoned.

Three judges of the New South Wales state Court of Criminal Appeal unanimously dismissed the prosecution case that the non-custodial sentence imposed on Kristian White, 35, was "manifestly inadequate."

White fired a Taser at Clare Nowland in the nursing home where she lived in Cooma on May 17, 2023. She fell and hit her head on the floor. She died in hospital a week later from an inoperable brain bleed.

The great-grandmother suffered dementia and nursing home staff called police because she was wandering around the bu...