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56y · Female·Acute combined drug toxicity
A 56-year-old woman died from acute combined drug toxicity following a fall in her bathroom on 12 March 2015. She had recently transitioned from oxycodone to tramadol for chronic pain management due to concerns about opi…
45y · Male·Cardiorespiratory arrest due to coronary artery disease, severe psychosis requir…
Stanley King, a 45-year-old man with severe psychosis, coronary artery disease, and obesity, died from cardiorespiratory arrest triggered by antipsychotic-induced laryngeal dystonia. Admitted involuntarily for acute psyc…
29y · Male·unknown, probably immersion
Shane Flanders, a 29-year-old man with a complex psychiatric history including personality disorder, substance abuse, previous suicide attempt, and drug-induced psychosis, disappeared on 28 January 2016 after being relea…
39y · Male·ligature compression of the neck (hanging)
A 39-year-old man with schizoaffective disorder and substance abuse died by suicide following arrest for criminal damage. While treated under a Community Treatment Order, he had poor medication compliance and ongoing dru…
0y · Male·complications of head injury
A premature newborn died from severe head injuries inflicted deliberately by his teenage father in hospital on 15 February 2014. The father had a well-documented history of violence, substance abuse, criminality and had …
20y · Male·ligature compression of the neck (hanging)
Isiah Kearing, a 20-year-old Aboriginal man, died by hanging approximately 3 hours after being arrested by police for disorderly conduct at a community hall. He had expressed anger and humiliation about being arrested, f…
59y · Female·complications of intra-abdominal sepsis, including multi-organ failure and bowel…
59-year-old woman died from intra-abdominal sepsis, multi-organ failure and bowel perforation following median hepatectomy for cholangiocarcinoma. Key clinical issues included: surgical delays of 20 days between stent in…
78y · Male·unascertained
Giuseppe Del Borrello, a 78-year-old man, disappeared from Yanchep National Park on 1 January 1979 during a family picnic and was presumed dead. The coroner concluded he died around the time of his disappearance, but the…
66y · Male·unascertained cause
John Lindsay Field, aged 66, disappeared on 13 May 1976 and was declared deceased by inquest in 2018. He left home in a depressed state on the anniversary of his wife's death. Extensive police investigation found no trac…
13y · Male·unascertained
Charles Tudawali, a 13-year-old Aboriginal boy with intellectual disability (mental age 7 years) and epilepsy requiring three-daily medication, went missing on 15 December 1976 while mustering horses in remote Kimberley …
2y · Male·Hypoxic brain injury following immersion (drowning)
Lachlan Mitchell, a 2-year-old with global developmental delay and hypermobility, drowned in a swimming pool at a family day care home on 9 November 2015, suffering fatal hypoxic brain injury. While swimming pools were n…
2y · Female·unascertained; death in house fire due to smoke inhalation or thermal injury
Patricia (Tricia) Revell, aged 2 years 10 months, died in a house fire at a remote railway outpost in Zanthus, Western Australia on 20 July 1978. She was in bed with her infant sister when the fire started. Her mother re…
Female·Unknown; coroner could not establish deaths beyond reasonable doubt
This coronial inquest investigated the disappearance of four people from a rural property in Nannup, Western Australia in July 2007: Chantelle McDougall (27), her daughter Leela, Tony Popic (40), and Simon (Gary Felton) …
Female·not established beyond reasonable doubt
This finding concerns four missing persons from Nannup, Western Australia (Chantelle McDougall, Leela McDougall, Tony Popic, and Simon/Gary Felton) who disappeared on or around 16 July 2007. While the coroner found reaso…
40y · Male·Drowning in the Indian Ocean
Luke Anthony Murray, a 40-year-old deck hand on the fishing vessel Napoleon, disappeared from the vessel in the early morning of 15 August 2016 while at sea approximately 50 nautical miles south west of Dirk Hartog Islan…
26y · Male·Neck injury from falling glass crate
A 26-year-old labourer died from severe neck trauma when a 1.4-tonne glass crate fell on him during container unloading at a small glass import business. The crate became destabilized while being dragged from a sea conta…
53y · Male·immersion (drowning)
Norman Leslie Bale, a 53-year-old experienced fisherman, died by drowning after taking an unseaworthy 12-foot aluminium dinghy with a defective outboard motor onto Nickol Bay near Karratha, Western Australia on 23 Septem…
30y · Male·Drowning
A 30-year-old male drowned at Salmon Holes, Western Australia after being swept off rocks into the ocean while rock fishing. He was not wearing a life jacket. Although he initially surfaced and attempted to swim back to …
47y · Male·Organ failure following use of synthetic cannabinoids and consequent hyperthermi…
A 47-year-old man died from organ failure following synthetic cannabinoid use and consequent heat stroke. After smoking synthetic cannabinoids (AB-CHMINACA and 5F-AMB), he became confused and dehydrated in a hot environm…
60y · Female·effects of fire in a woman with alcohol effect
A 60-year-old woman with chronic paranoid schizophrenia died in a domestic fire on 26 July 2014. The day before, her son sought help from police and mental health services after noticing signs of mental health deteriorat…
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