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49y · Female·Respiratory failure sequential to ingestion of Glyphosate due to depression and …
Patricia Van Putten, a 49-year-old retired teacher, died by suicide via glyphosate ingestion on 18 February 2006, four days after discharge from psychiatric hospitalization for a serious self-harm attempt (throat lacerat…
26y · Male·severe closed head injury associated with severe fractures of the cranial vault …
Two remand prisoners died by jumping from mezzanine floors at Adelaide Remand Centre. Andrew Gill (26) died 2 June 2005 after jumping 1 June; Simon Schaer (70) died 15 December 2005. Critical failure: police possessed in…
78y · Male·pneumonia with dehydration and exposure to heat as contributing factors
Peter Limbunya, a 78-year-old Aboriginal elder, died from pneumonia complicated by dehydration and exposure after being left unattended at a remote airstrip following hospital discharge. He was not accompanied by a requi…
Zara Schupelius: suffocation; Callum Smith: undetermined; Jake Hackett: suffocat…
Concurrent inquests into five sudden unexpected deaths in infancy (SUDI), three attributed to suffocation and two undetermined but with suffocation as a significant possibility. All deaths occurred in infants aged 2-7 mo…
45y · Male·choking on food
Richard Mann, a 45-year-old man with intellectual disability and psychiatric illness residing in an institutional setting (Strathmont Centre infirmary), died from choking on food. Critical failures in observation and mon…
37y · Female·unlawful killing
Kath Bergamin, a 37-year-old woman, disappeared from her home in Wangaratta, Victoria on 18 August 2002. She had recently left her husband John following years of psychological and physical abuse, obtaining intervention …
Multiple causes across 22 deaths: ligature compression of the neck (17 hangings)…
This coronial inquiry examined 22 deaths of Aboriginal people in the Kimberley region of Western Australia between 2000 and 2007. Seventeen were self-harm deaths, with four additional accidental deaths and one homicide. …
33y · Male·accidental drowning
Billy John Martin, a 33-year-old man, drowned in a residential swimming pool while heavily intoxicated (blood alcohol 0.370%), having sustained recent head trauma. He had visited a doctor five days prior with post-concus…
71y · Female·undetermined
71-year-old woman found dead in unusual position at Brighton aged care facility. Her body was positioned with head resting against bed pole, with marks on neck and bruising observed by carers. The death was certified as …
40y · Male·Haemorrhage from gunshot wound to chest
Lee Andrew Kennedy, a 40-year-old man with a history of mood instability, migraines, and medical treatment through a GP and psychiatrist, died from a gunshot wound to the chest inflicted by Constable Erin Levay during a …
70y · Male·Acute coronary occlusion due to extensive coronary atherosclerosis
Kenneth Maggable, a 70-year-old man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, and prostate cancer, presented twice to Cairns Base Hospital on 8 August 2005 with respiratory complaints. After discharge at 4:50 A…
14y · Female·Ligature compression of the neck (suicide)
Gabrielle Mia Tedeschi, a 14-year-old girl with longstanding oppositional and self-harm behaviours and subsequent depression, died by suicide on 14 October 2004 following a ligature compression injury sustained on 11 Oct…
37y · Male·acute heart failure caused by multiple drug toxicity (methadone and alprazolam)
Richard Mark Kiel, a 37-year-old with chronic opioid addiction, died from acute heart failure caused by lethally high levels of methadone and alprazolam, likely consumed on 9 September 2005. His GP, Dr G., prescribed the…
50y · Female·mixed tablet overdosage (quetiapine and venlafaxine with codeine)
Treenor Heather Randall, a 50-year-old registered nurse, died from mixed tablet overdose (quetiapine and venlafaxine) following a progressive mental health decline. After work-related stress in late 2002, she developed d…
37y · Male·Community acquired pneumonia as a result of melioidosis infection
Kevin Fogarty, a 37-year-old power lineman, died from melioidosis-related community-acquired pneumonia at Winton Hospital after a 4-day admission. He likely contracted melioidosis through occupational exposure to mud dur…
44y · Male·Sepsis and pulmonary thromboemboli complicating a ruptured cerebral artery aneur…
Peter Gillam, age 44, died from sepsis and pulmonary thromboemboli complicating a ruptured cerebral aneurysm with subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH). On 16 December 2004, his GP Dr H. referred him urgently for CT head to exc…
Unknown·Erfinna Lay: Aspiration resulting from Acute Multiple Drug Toxicity; John Quirk:…
Two young people died from acute multiple drug toxicity in 2005. Erfinna Lay (22, female) died from aspiration after ingesting chloral hydrate prescribed to her partner. John Quirk (27, male) died from doloxene overdose …
69y · Male·Compound Head Injury sustained in motor vehicle crash
Norman John Hasluck, aged 69, died from a compound head injury sustained in a motor vehicle crash on 9 January 2004 at the intersection of Guildford Road and Eighth Avenue, Maylands. Hasluck's vehicle was struck by a Mit…
53y · Male·asphyxia from combined effects of neck compression from hanging and suffocation …
John Trenorden died by suicide in prison following his arrest for allegedly murdering his former business partner Penelope Christopher. Police correctly identified him as at-risk after he attempted to step in front of tr…
47y · Male·Myocarditis
Geoffrey Thorpe, a 47-year-old fitter, collapsed and died suddenly at work while testing solenoids with electrical equipment. Initial suspicion of electrocution was thoroughly investigated through expert electrical testi…
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