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31y · Male·undetermined
Erol Elmas, a 31-year-old man with schizoaffective disorder, died in custody at Thomas Embling Hospital on 30 November 2022. The cause of death remains undetermined despite thorough pathological investigation. Mr Elmas w…
34y · Male·gunshot injuries to the torso
Ashley Fildes, a 34-year-old man with schizophrenia, was fatally shot by police on 1 May 2020 after stabbing multiple people at a shopping centre while in acute psychosis. He had been non-compliant with depot antipsychot…
27y · Male·ligature strangulation
A 27-year-old male with treatment-resistant schizophrenia died from ligature strangulation by a co-patient at a secure forensic mental health facility. The deceased had multiple admissions for medication non-compliance a…
42y · Male·Multiple injuries sustained in motor vehicle crash
A 42-year-old man with schizoaffective disorder subject to a Community Treatment Order died in a single-vehicle motor crash in rural Western Australia. He had poor insight, chronic medication non-adherence, and a pattern…
39y · Male·multiple injuries from motor vehicle collision
A 39-year-old man with chronic paranoid schizophrenia on a Community Treatment Order died by suicide in a head-on motor vehicle collision. He had been appropriately managed on depot antipsychotic medication with generall…
56y · Male·Probable cardiac arrhythmia
Stephen Russell Harris, a 56-year-old man with a long history of schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder, died of probable cardiac arrhythmia while an involuntary patient at Spencer Clinic on 18 December 2014. He pres…
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