Coroner's Finding: ROBERTS Brian Matthew

36y · Male·Hanging

Brian Matthew Roberts, aged 36, died by hanging while on home detention bail in Berri, South Australia on 22 March 2014. He had been charged with rape offences and was subject to bail conditions including electronic monitoring and abstinence from alcohol and non-prescribed drugs. Despite these conditions, toxicology revealed alcohol and cannabis in his system. Roberts received substantial support including community corrections supervision, general practitioner care, psychiatric consultation, and counselling. A psychiatrist noted chronic anger control issues, polysubstance abuse history, and possible antisocial personality traits but found no active suicidal ideation at October 2013 assessment. Multiple general practitioner visits in the week before death documented mood and anxiety management with psychotropic medications, with no expressed suicidal intent recorded. The coroner concluded the death was not preventable.