41y · Male·respiratory arrest secondary to advanced metastatic breast cancer
Ray Jabaltjari Gibson was a 41-year-old Aboriginal man with advanced metastatic breast cancer who died of respiratory arrest while in prison custody. He had been diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013 w…
85y · Male·metastatic prostate cancer
An 85-year-old man died of metastatic prostate cancer while in custody serving a sentence for historical child sexual offences. He had declined investigation an…
75y · Male·metastatic pancreatic cancer
A 75-year-old man died from metastatic pancreatic cancer while in lawful custody. He was diagnosed in February 2025 and underwent palliative chemotherapy at Prince…
65y · Male·Adenocarcinoma with unknown primary
John Conway McKenzie, a 65-year-old prisoner with gall bladder cancer, died from adenocarcinoma with unknown primary on 30 May 2025 at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne. He was a…
64y · Male·bronchopneumonia in a man receiving palliative care for terminal cancer of the r…
Bill Portelli, a 64-year-old man with chronic paranoid schizophrenia and terminal rectum cancer with liver metastases, died of bronchopneumonia (from aspirated vomit) while receiving palliative care at …
60y · Male·pneumonia in a man with underlying advanced metastatic cancer and chronic airway…
Adrian Bernard Williams, a 60-year-old man with advanced metastatic cancer, chronic obstructive airways disease, and ischaemic heart disease, died from pneumonia while in prison cus…
67y · Male·cancer of the stomach with metastasis liver
A 67-year-old man serving a life sentence died of metastatic stomach cancer in hospital. He was diagnosed with terminal gastric cancer in April 2000 and underwent a palliative gastri…
67y · Female·metastatic carcinoma of the colon
Lynne Maree Bessell, aged 67, died of metastatic colon cancer at North West Regional Hospital on 13 March 2016. She had a history of bipolar affective disorder managed …
81y · Male·Lung cancer
An 81-year-old man with advanced lung cancer and multiple comorbidities died of natural causes while receiving palliative care in prison. He had docume…
46y · Male·Complications of stage 4 colorectal cancer in a man with multiple medical comorb…
…sability, cerebral palsy, epilepsy and chronic constipation, died from complications of stage 4 colorectal cancer. Cancer was discovered on colonoscopy in June 2017 during investigation of chronic constipation. He was de…
75y · Male·Metastatic lung cancer
Patrick Hudd, a 75-year-old prisoner serving a 27-year sentence, died of metastatic lung cancer at Long Bay Correctional Centre. He was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer in 2012, received two courses …
72y · Male·inanition of terminal metastatic carcinoma of the left lung
…hronic mental illness detained under the Mental Health Act died of inanition from terminal metastatic lung cancer at an aged care facility. He had advanced lung disease from chronic smoking and was diagnosed with inopera…
50y · Male·Metastatic carcinoma of unknown primary
… and shoulder pain in March 2024 attributed to osteoarthritis, but was diagnosed with extensive metastatic cancer in June 2024. He received palliative care and died as expected from disease progression. The finding ident…
62y · Female·Metastatic Breast Cancer
…ia Parkes, a 62-year-old woman with autism and severe intellectual disability, died from metastatic breast cancer at a palliative care unit. She had resided in residential care since childhood with substantial family sup…
88y · Male·Metastatic prostate carcinoma
…cinoma in the Aged Care Ward at Long Bay Correctional Centre. He had been diagnosed with stage IV prostate cancer in 2009 and received external beam radiotherapy. During his 6+ years in custody, his cancer re-emerged aro…
55y · Male·Consequences of urothelial cancer
David Hall, aged 55, died in custody at Long Bay Correctional Facility from metastatic urothelial cancer. He had multiple comorbidities including multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, and history of bladder cancer treat…
58y · Male·Metastatic colorectal cancer
Edward Tappe, a 58-year-old male prisoner with metastatic colorectal cancer, died in St Augustine's Ward at St Vincent's Hospital in May 2013. He was diagnosed with colorectal cancer…
32y · Male·complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer
A 32-year-old male prisoner died from metastatic pancreatic cancer at a hospice. Pancreatic cancer was diagnosed shortly after incarceration when jaundice was detected. He r…
78y · Male·large left basal ganglia intracerebral haemorrhage with mass effect
…hile admitted under an Inpatient Treatment Order (ITO) for acute hyperactive delirium. He had stage 4 lung cancer with extensive brain metastases discovered on MRI. His delirium was appropriately attributed to cancer rat…
60y · Male·Metastatic carcinoma of the prostate
Michael Goldman was a 60-year-old prisoner at Port Phillip Prison who died of metastatic prostate cancer. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in September 2006 and underwent brachytherapy in mid-2007. By May 2…
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