Coronial

66 results for psychotic features

SAmental health2025-03-06

Coroner's Finding: Fowles, Wayne Lincoln

59y · Male·hanging

A 59-year-old man with major depression and psychotic features was lawfully detained under an inpatient treatment order at Noarlunga Hospital's Morier Ward. H…

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SAhome2000-03-08

Coroner's Finding: KAPTSIS Michael Vasilious

3y · Male·smothering

…ld boy died from smothering by his mother, who was suffering from severe bipolar affective disorder with psychotic features and severe depression. The coroner examined whether psychiatric care was inadequate. The child'…

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WAcommunity2025-08-11

Inquest into the Suspected Death of Simon Brian HARRINGTON

34y · Male·unascertained (suspected suicide, but body not located so no post-mortem examina…

Simon Harrington, a 34-year-old man with depression and psychotic features, disappeared on 10 January 2011 after starting a new job that triggered anxiety. He had previou…

psychiatryemergency medicinecommunicationquetiapine
VICcommunity2023-11-23

Finding into death of Melissa Louise Arbuckle

33y · Female·Mixed drug toxicity (propranolol, oxycodone, diazepam, temazepam, lurasidone, du…

…ollowing her daughter Lily's death in July 2021, which occurred during severe postpartum depression with psychotic features. Although Ms Arbuckle showed significant recovery and positive life progress in the 12 months b…

psychiatrygeneral practicepropranolol
TAShospital2022-03-21

Coroner's Finding: Rouse, Rex

86y · Male·pulmonary embolism following deep vein thrombosis

…spital on 26 May 2020. He was admitted under a Mental Health Act assessment order following a relapse of psychotic depression at his aged care facility. Clinical examination found no acute cause for his mental deteriora…

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VICmental health2025-05-19

Finding into death of Anna Lee

70y · Female·Asphyxia due to airway obstruction

…y obstruction while an inpatient in a mental health unit. She was admitted with first-episode mania with psychotic features, triggered by financial scam victimization. Despite appropriate psychiatric management with ant…

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SAhospital2020-06-18

Coroner's Finding: BOYCE Ian Charles

85y · Male·hospital acquired pneumonia on a background of metastatic colorectal carcinoma

…tal-acquired pneumonia on a background of metastatic colorectal cancer. He was admitted to hospital with psychotic depression, suicidal ideation, and severe malnutrition after two years of depression. A CT scan revealed…

psychiatrygeriatric medicine
WAmental health2014-04-11

Inquest into the Death of Rutherford Sarah

28y · Female·multiple injuries from deliberate fall from pedestrian bridge onto Mitchell Free…

…spital at the time, admitted on 3 December 2009 following a relapse triggered by non-compliance with antipsychotic medication. After initial stabilisation on a secure ward with 30-minute observations, she progressed to …

psychiatryintensive carerisperidone
SAmental health2000-04-28

Coroner's Finding: SCOTT Laurie Joseph

53y · Male·asphyxia due to upper airway occlusion by a foreign body (blanket)

… He was detained under the Mental Health Act and being actively treated with appropriate medications for psychotic and mood disorders. Clinical staff were aware of his suicidal ideation and self-harm history, with multi…

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WA2023-08-23

Inquest into the Deaths of Adell Sherylee PARTRIDGE and Veronica Philomena LOCKYER

Female·unascertained

Two Indigenous women from the Pilbara disappeared in late 1998 without trace: Veronica Lockyer (33 years old) and her infant daughter Adell Partridge (7 months old). Veronica was last seen at a Centrelink office in South…

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TAScommunity2020-08-13

Coroner's Finding: Wright, Maria Rebekah

31y · Female·drowning, deliberately self-inflicted with intention of ending life

Maria Rebekah Wright, a 31-year-old woman with severe borderline personality disorder and chronic suicidality, died by drowning at Howrah Beach, Tasmania on 14 August 2017. She had been discharged from Royal Hobart Hospi…

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NSWmental health2024-05-16

Inquest into the death of Roger Frederick Schnelle

59y · Male·head injuries

…facility in April 2021. He developed sudden onset severe mental illness (anxiety disorder with depressive features, with possible psychotic depression) triggered by debilitating vestibular symptoms. Despite rapid clinica…

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SAcommunity2014-03-12

Coroner's Finding: MUNDY Michaela Jayne

15y · Female·neck compression due to hanging

…o-severe depressive symptoms. Despite evidence of clinical deterioration, risk escalation, and concerning features (possible psychosis, dissociation), Hotich assessed risk as low and did not consult psychiatry colleagues…

psychiatrygeneral practicediagnosticcommunicationfluoxetine
NSW2024-12-12

Inquest into the death of Mr S

57y · Male·Hanging

…tre in January 2018. Although he had been psychiatrically assessed as experiencing major depression with psychotic features and was recommended by a psychiatrist for placement in a two-occupant cell as suicide risk miti…

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TAShome2018-02-28

Coroner's Finding: Evans, Jillian and John

62y · Male·Mr Evans: self-inflicted gunshot wound to head and asphyxiation by hanging. Mrs …

…chosis manifesting as delusions about chemical infestation of their home. The coroner found Mr Evans was psychotic at the time of death. From May 2013, Mr Evans presented repeatedly to general practitioners with escalat…

psychiatrygeneral practicediagnosticcommunicationrisperidone
SAmental health2000-04-07

Coroner's Finding: SANDERS Sandra June

42y · Female·salt water drowning

… from Woodleigh House psychiatric unit on 3 September 1997. She had presented with major depression with psychotic features following a recent suicide attempt, and was appropriately detained under the Mental Health Act.…

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SAhospital2001-05-16

Coroner's Finding: KLOSE Glen Malcolm

71y · Male·Saddle pulmonary embolus as a consequence of deep venous thrombosis in the right…

…mitted to Glenside Hospital on 14 July 2000 under Mental Health Act detention for severe depression with psychotic features. On 28 July 2000, he was transferred to Royal Adelaide Hospital where right calf DVT was identi…

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NSW2025-02-05

Inquest into the death of Mohamed Syed Ahamed

33y · Male·gunshot wounds to chest and upper arm

A 33-year-old man with bipolar disorder on reducing doses of risperidone experienced a psychotic relapse and stabbed a stranger at a railway station. He then entered a police station with a knife, adva…

general practicepsychiatryrisperidone
SAhome2002-11-06

Coroner's Finding: JERICHO Patricia Susanne

43y · Female·neck compression due to hanging

…4 November and urgently recommended hospital admission, stating she had major depression with melancholic features, possible psychotic symptoms, and elevated self-harm risk. However, the acute crisis intervention service…

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TAShome2017-02-23

Coroner's Finding: Greer, Rita

62y · Female·multiple self-inflicted stab wounds to the neck, thorax and abdomen

Rita Sally Greer, aged 62, died from multiple self-inflicted stab wounds while experiencing a severe psychotic episode. She had schizophrenia with documented poor medication compliance since 1990. On 10 September 20…

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