Killer cop Kristian White who fatally Tasered 95-year-old great-granny Clare Nowland faces being sent to Australia’s top secret Long Bay prison

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The police officer who fatally tasered a 95-year-old grandmother in her nursing home will be taken to Australia’s most secret prison when he is sentenced to full-time prison next year.

Plans have already been made to house Kristian White at the Special Purpose Center (SPC) at Sydney’s Long Bay prison complex after he was convicted of the manslaughter of Clare Nowland.

The SPC holds the most vulnerable prisoners in NSW and is so far off the grid that most Corrective Services staff have no access to information about who is in there.

Also known as The Kennel due to the number of ‘dogs’ (or informants) that reside there. Once inmates step inside the brick walls of the SPC, their whereabouts no longer appear on the Corrective Services computer system.

While the High Risk Management Correctional Center in Goulburn – known as Supermax – holds prisoners who pose a danger to staff and other prisoners, the SPC holds those who are at extreme risk of physical harm.

Instead of being referred to by the name or Master Index Number (MIN) that each inmate receives when he or she is first taken into custody, SPC residents are identified internally by a number following the letter P.

“It’s actually for prisoners who can’t be taken anywhere else because they would be killed,” a prison source told Daily Mail Australia.

The SPC, which received its first prisoners in February 1989, was built at a cost of $18.5 million to house offenders in need of special protection, such as police officers, bailiffs and key witnesses.

It currently houses about 30 inmates out of a prison population of 13,000.

A retired prison officer who had never been to prison despite working in the NSW prison for decades said few Corrective Services staff knew the place.

“All prisoners are referred to by a number, not by their name,” he said.

‘I’ve always seen the place as a ‘luxury boneyard’. It’s actually a very expensive security unit.”

Accused murderer Beau Lamarre-Condon was transferred there about six months ago after a period under strict segregation at the Metropolitan Remand and Reception Center in Silverwater.

Prison authorities considered him a potential danger because he was accused of extremely serious crimes, had attracted major media attention and had never been in prison before.

Lamarre-Condon is charged with the murders of former Studio Ten presenter Jesse Baird and Qantas flight attendant Luke Davies in Paddington on February 19 and has yet to enter pleas.

As the case works its way through the courts, the dismissed senior officer can expect to remain in his current location.

Lamarre-Condon was removed from the NSW Police Force in March. White was fired by Police Chief Karen Webb on December 3.

The senior officer discharged his Taser at Ms Nowland at the Yallambee Lodge aged care facility in Cooma in southern NSW in the early hours of May 17 last year.

The great-grandmother, who was wielding a knife and suffering from signs of undiagnosed dementia, fell and hit her head on the ground. She died a week later in Cooma Hospital.

A Supreme Court jury found White guilty of manslaughter on November 27 and two days later Judge Ian Harrison rejected a Crown bid to deny the 34-year-old bail until his sentencing.

White’s barrister Troy Edwards SC had argued against the Crown’s position that a prison sentence for the police officer was inevitable.

Judge Harrison said that while he did not want to give White “unwarranted hope”, he was not prepared to say he would ultimately sentence him to a full-time prison sentence.

The judge said it was not disputed that police officers faced the threat of violence in prison, but that White’s circumstances were not special or exceptional.

Detective Sergeant Mitchell Bosworth of the Homicide Unit had prepared a statement for the detention application detailing what would happen to White if bail was refused or he ultimately ended up in prison.

Firstly, he would be escorted directly to the MRRC by officers from the Supreme Court’s Corrective Services Special Operations Group, where he would be classified as ‘protection non-association’.

Acting Corrective Services Commissioner Leon Taylor would then be asked to approve White’s placement at the SPC, according to the recommendation accompanying Detective Sergeant Bosworth’s statement.

Wayne Astill, who is serving a maximum of 23 years for raping 14 female inmates while he was a prison officer at Dillwynia Correctional Center, has called the SPC home since shortly after his arrest in February 2019.

Former NSW Crime Commission assistant director Mark Standen, who was jailed over a $120 million drug conspiracy, spent most of his 16 years behind bars at the SPC before being released in June.

Former boxer Fortunato ‘Lucky’ Gattellari ended up at the SPC after becoming a key witness against property developer Ron Medich, who ordered the contract killing of business rival Michael McGurk in 2009.

Gattellari left the SPC in December 2019 after serving a nine-year prison sentence for organizing McGurk’s murder and trying to extort money from Medich.

Former Federal Court Judge Marcus Einfeld spent time at the SPC after being convicted of perjury and perverting the course of justice for claiming a dead woman was driving his car when he was given a speeding fine.

The SPC sometimes even takes in offenders that smaller states can’t keep safe, like Perth bikie Sid ‘Snot’ Reid, who turned on his Gypsy Joker bikie comrades.

Reid became perhaps Australia’s most infamous supergrass after he was arrested over the 2001 car fire bombings of former Western Australian CIB boss Don Hancock and his friend Lou Lewis.

Rapist and prison informant Fred Many spent his final years of incarceration at the SPC, while gangster Neddy Smith spent a long period there after working with ICAC in the early 1990s.

Swedish model Charlotte Lindstrom, who tried to hire a hitman to kill two witnesses giving evidence against her drug-dealing fiancé, was another infamous SPC resident.

Judge Harrison will hear the verdicts in February before deciding White’s fate.