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30y · Male·hanging
JC was a 30-year-old with a long history of benzodiazepine dependence and previous psychiatric episodes triggered by withdrawal. He presented to Calvary Mater Hospital after a deliberate overdose of 48 Etizolam tablets w…
28y · Male·Hanging
Dylan Bell, 28, died by hanging following discharge from Redland Hospital ED where he presented with acute psychosis, suicidal and homicidal ideation, and made three self-harm attempts by strangulation. Despite a concern…
55y · Male·decompensated liver failure in a man with metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma, w…
Tony Ruich, a 55-year-old sentenced prisoner, died from decompensated liver failure due to metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma with terminal palliative care. He had pre-existing cirrhosis diagnosed in 2012, likely from h…
23y · Male·Multiple injuries from being struck by train
Jalen Hunter Norris, aged 23, died by suicide when struck by a train on 9 April 2021. He was experiencing paranoid delusions and had recently been arrested for criminal damage and cannabis possession after an incident at…
24y · Male·Mixed drug toxicity (25C-NBOME, 4-fluoroamphetamine, LSD, MDMA, cocaine, ketamin…
A 24-year-old previously healthy male died from mixed drug toxicity after ingesting multiple substances (25C-NBOME, 4-fluoroamphetamine, LSD, MDMA, cocaine, ketamine) at a music festival. He presented to the Alfred Hospi…
21y · Male·traumatic closed head injury sustained in a motor vehicle crash
Alessandro Borchi, a 21-year-old Italian working holidaymaker, died from a traumatic closed head injury sustained in a motor vehicle crash on 16 January 2018 in Huonville, Tasmania. The vehicle, driven by Luca Papotto, l…
32y · Male·self-inflicted hanging
Sean Collins, a 32-year-old American chef on a work visa who became imprisoned in the Northern Territory, died by suicide in prison custody. He had multiple unaddressed risk factors: first incarceration, lengthy sentence…
27y · Male·multiple injuries
A 27-year-old British man died from multiple injuries after falling from a five-storey building on New Year's Eve 2016. He had ingested LSD, ketamine, and cannabinoids, which caused significant cognitive impairment and p…
36y · Male·Unknown - advanced decomposition precluded determination
Scott Clements, a 36-year-old man with longstanding mental illness, depression, substance use disorder and multiple suicide attempts, was found dead at his home between 19 August and 14 October 2014. His body was in adva…
35y · Male·Head injury sustained in a bicycle accident
Sean Brindle, aged 35, died from head injury sustained in a bicycle accident on Boxing Day 2008 at The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne. He and his brother were struck from behind by a car driven by Luke Shields, who was sever…
28y · Male·ligature compression of the neck (hanging)
Luke Isaac Forkin, a 28-year-old man with a long history of substance abuse and mental health issues, died by suicide while absent without leave from Graylands Hospital. He had been admitted involuntarily due to psychoti…
21y · Male·undetermined causes, in the course of being restrained by members of the NSW Pol…
Roberto Laudisio Curti, a 21-year-old Brazilian, died on 18 March 2012 during police restraint in Sydney after consuming LSD which induced a psychotic state. After a convenience store incident was misclassified as an arm…
21y · Male·Head injury sustained in fall from height
A 21-year-old university student with first-episode schizophreniform disorder died from head injury sustained jumping from a 3-metre hospital courtyard wall on 1 January 2011. He had been admitted to the psychiatric unit…
25y · Female·Undetermined. Coroner stated 'the evidence adduced does not enable me to determi…
Daneeka Priscilla Nixon, 25, was found deceased in a waterhole on a rural property near Lismore NSW on 20 April 2006, four days after she was last seen alive at an Easter weekend party. Witnesses described her as progres…
18y · Male·acute multiple drug toxicity
Matthew Hinton, an 18-year-old male, died from acute multiple drug toxicity after consuming nine LSD tablets and methamphetamine. Police attended at approximately 5:30am when called to a disturbance, but a critical delay…
19y · Male·Unknown - presumed dead following disappearance
This coronial finding concerns the disappearance of Daniel Nicholas Sheppard, a 19-year-old who vanished from Port Adelaide Railway Station on New Year's Day 1995 after a night of socialising in Adelaide. The coroner fou…
21y · Male·Cardiorespiratory arrest associated with butane abuse by inhalation
A 21-year-old detained psychiatric patient died from cardiorespiratory arrest following deliberate butane inhalation in a hospital wardrobe. He was admitted to an open mental health ward following acute psychosis, with d…
20y · Male·Ligature Compression of the Neck (Hanging)
Steven Charles Indich, a 20-year-old Aboriginal man with schizophrenia and a long history of psychotic symptoms, violent behaviour and substance abuse, died by suicide in Smith Ward at Graylands Hospital on 13 November 1…
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