26y · Male·neck compression due to hanging
A 26-year-old Aboriginal man with longstanding borderline personality disorder, substance abuse, and multiple suicide attempts died by hanging in a psychiatric ward whilst detained under a Mental Health Act order. Key cl…
34y · Female·hypoxic brain damage complicating fresh water drowning
Alice Louise McTye, a 34-year-old woman with severe intellectual disability and epilepsy, died from hypoxic brain damage following fresh water drowning in a bath at a disability services residence. The coroner found she …
47y · Male·Ligature compression of the neck (hanging)
Kenneth John Groth, aged 47, died by hanging in Casuarina Prison on 9 April 1998. He was a sentenced prisoner convicted of sexual offences, serving a 10-year sentence. His appeal was adjourned and legal aid was refused, …
Male·Transection of the aorta with exsanguination caused by gunshot wounds to the mid…
Warren I'Anson died from gunshot wounds to the mid-back on 17 November 1995 during a police response to a mental health crisis. He had schizophrenia, recently experienced grief from his wife and friend's deaths, and was …
48y · Male·shotgun wound to the head
A 48-year-old Yolngu man with chronic mental illness (schizophrenia) died from a shotgun wound to the head on Elcho Island, NT in April 1990. After spearing two people with a fishing spear, police Task Force was called t…
24y · Male·Aspiration pneumonia secondary to drug abuse and overdose of multiple drugs
A 24-year-old man with schizophrenia died from aspiration pneumonia following overdose of multiple drugs including diazepam, tramadol, morphine, and others. The day before death, he took excess diazepam to manage auditor…
56y · Female·Combined drug toxicity
A 56-year-old woman with a long history of depression and recurrent suicide attempts died from combined drug toxicity while an inpatient at a private psychiatric hospital. She had been admitted following suicidal ideatio…
52y · Female·Unascertained (natural causes)
Jocelyn Riddiford, a 52-year-old woman with intellectual disability and autism residing in supported accommodation, died from unascertained natural causes. Over 18 months prior to death, she experienced progressive decli…
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