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90 results for paranoid_delusions

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 2007, s…

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NTcommunity2016-03-09

Inquest into the death of Ronald Donaldson

69y · Male·Blunt head trauma

Ronald Donaldson, a 69-year-old fencing contractor, was killed by Justin Osborne with a sledgehammer in Katherine on 3 December 2013. Osborne was experiencing untreated schizophrenia with acute psychotic symptoms and bel…

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VICmental health2025-05-19

Finding into death of Anna Lee

70y · Female·Asphyxia due to airway obstruction

Anna Lee, a 70-year-old retired psychiatric nurse, died from asphyxia due to airway obstruction while an inpatient in a mental health unit. She was admitted with first-episode mania with psychotic features, triggered by …

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WAmental health- 11 April 2014

Inquest into the Death of Tom FOSKI

51y · Male·congestive cardiac failure in association with ischaemic and hypertensive heart …

Tom Foski, a 51-year-old man with chronic schizophrenia, died from congestive cardiac failure associated with ischaemic and hypertensive heart disease. He had multiple medical comorbidities including diabetes, COPD, prev…

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SAcommunity2011-12-22

Coroner's Finding: HYNES Simon Christopher

41y · Male·acute neck compression due to hanging

Simon Christopher Hynes, aged 41, died by hanging between 7 June and 5 July 2007, shortly after discharge from hospital on leave of absence under a Mental Health Act continuing detention order. He had a 20-year history o…

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SA2020-11-26

Coroner's Finding: KEN Kenneth Ngalatji

68y · Male·compression of the neck with contributing acute myocardial infarction due to cor…

A 68-year-old Aboriginal man died by hanging in his cell at Yatala Labour Prison on 16 April 2015 while experiencing acute myocardial infarction. He was transferred to Yatala for urgent psychiatric assessment following t…

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VIC2021-04-29

Finding into death of Spiros Boursinos

45y · Male·coronary artery disease and mechanical asphyxia in a man using cocaine

A 45-year-old man with a history of drug-induced psychosis, cocaine use, and underlying coronary artery disease died in police custody following physical restraint at a licensed bar. After consuming cocaine, he experienc…

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VIChome2022-11-15

Finding into death of Claire Perinovic

7y · Female·Multiple stab wounds to the back

Claire Perinovic, aged 7, died from multiple stab wounds inflicted by her mother Katica during a filicide-suicide incident. Katica had been diagnosed with First Episode Psychosis in November 2020 and treated by NorthWest…

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TAShome2023-04-03

Coroner's Finding: De-identified HJ

71y · Female·starvation

A 71-year-old woman with chronic mental illness died of starvation in her home in Tasmania. Police attended on 9 December 2021 for a welfare check and found her severely malnourished, mentally unwell, and unable to care …

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VICmental health2014-12-05

Finding into death of Wieslaw Albin Bernacki

62y · Male·hanging

A 62-year-old man with a long history of severe schizophrenia died by hanging after being granted escorted day leave from a psychiatric inpatient unit. The coroner identified critical failures in communication between ho…

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VIChospital2015-12-02

Finding into death of Justin Damien Connell

37y · Male·Multiple injuries (motor vehicle impact – pedestrian)

Justin Connell, a 37-year-old man with schizophrenia, died from multiple injuries sustained in a pedestrian–motor vehicle collision on 13 February 2013. He had been diagnosed with schizophrenia in October 2012 and prescr…

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WAcommunity2017-09-06

Inquest into the Death of James Michael Chee Ming YUNG

42y · Male·Multiple injuries sustained in motor vehicle crash

A 42-year-old man with schizoaffective disorder subject to a Community Treatment Order died in a single-vehicle motor crash in rural Western Australia. He had poor insight, chronic medication non-adherence, and a pattern…

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SAmental health2010-05-07

Coroner's Finding: DOBRIJEVIC Sofija

73y · Female·neck compression by ligature

Sofija Dobrijevic, a 73-year-old woman detained under the Mental Health Act, died by ligature strangulation in a closed psychiatric ward at Glenside Hospital. She had chronic pain since a 2002 fall, depression, and histr…

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WAmental health2015-11-30

Inquest into the Death of Frances May COOPER

48y · Female·Head injury

Frances May Cooper, a 48-year-old woman with chronic paranoid schizophrenia, died from head injuries after being struck by a train on 30 October 2011 while on unescorted leave from the mental health unit at Kalgoorlie Re…

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QLD2007-11-29

Mills, Samuel John

31y · Male·Self-inflicted hanging

Samuel John Mills, a 31-year-old man with chronic schizophrenia, died by suicide in Lotus Glen Correctional Centre's medical ward in 2004. Staff provided adequate supervision on the day of death; Mills denied self-harm i…

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VICcommunity2014-08-25

Finding into death of Travis Joseph Hartskeerl

32y · Male·Head and neck trauma (train impact)

Travis Hartskeerl, a 32-year-old man with a complex history of schizophrenia, polysubstance abuse, and multiple serious suicide attempts, died by suicide on railway tracks on 16 December 2008. He had been discharged from…

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NSWhome2014-01-10

Inquest into the deaths of Nicholas WATERLOW and Chloe HEUSTON - Reasons for Findings

Unknown·Injuries sustained in violent attack by Antony Waterlow (stab wounds caused by k…

Nicholas Waterlow and his daughter Chloe Heuston were fatally attacked by Antony Waterlow, Nicholas's son and Chloe's brother, in November 2009. Antony suffered from untreated paranoid schizophrenia, characterized by per…

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VIChome2022-11-15

Finding into death of Matthew Perinovic

3y · Male·Multiple stab wounds to the back

Matthew Perinovic, aged 3 years, died from multiple stab wounds inflicted by his mother Katica during a first-episode psychosis. Katica had been receiving mental health treatment from NorthWestern Mental Health Service f…

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WAhospital2025-06-30

Inquest into the death of Houston PEEL

29y · Male·ligature compression of the neck (hanging)

Houston Peel, a 29-year-old man, presented to Fiona Stanley Hospital ED at 4:35 am on 30 March 2023 with acute psychotic symptoms including auditory and visual hallucinations, bizarre behaviour, and paranoid ideation fol…

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VIChome2026-01-06

Finding into death of Michelle Margaret Darragh

32y · Female·Stab wound to the back extending into the posterior neck, causing subtotal trans…

Michelle Darragh, a 32-year-old social worker, was fatally stabbed by her former partner Benjamin Coman on 9 October 2021. She was pregnant with their third child. The relationship involved progressive coercive control, …

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