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64y · Male·unascertained natural causes
Ralph Keat, a 64-year-old man with frontal lobe dementia, was admitted to Kingston Centre as an involuntary mental health patient on 12 April 2010. On 14 April, he was found unresponsive in the bathroom and could not be …
14y · Male·injuries sustained in fall from height
Aaron, aged 14, died by suicide from a fall from an 11th-floor balcony. Over 12 years, he had 14 child protection notifications for exposure to domestic violence, neglect, parental substance misuse, poor school attendanc…
39y · Male·unascertained
This is a coronal finding concerning a presumed death rather than a confirmed medical death. John Christianos disappeared on 11 June 2001 from residential care and has not been sighted since. He had a history of bipolar …
30y · Female·Multi organ failure from hydrochloric acid ingestion
Ms P, a 30-year-old woman with recent-onset depression and anxiety, died from multi-organ failure following intentional hydrochloric acid ingestion on 22 September 2008. She had presented to mental health services on 18 …
51y · Male·unascertained
Nigel Delaney, aged 51, died of unascertained cause while admitted to an acute psychiatry inpatient unit following relapse of schizoaffective disorder. He was found unresponsive during night observations and could not be…
89y · Female·Ischaemic heart disease in a woman with a history of recent assault
Mrs Anderina Sanderson, 89, died from ischaemic heart disease four days after being assaulted by a male resident with dementia in an aged care facility. The forensic pathologist concluded the assault accelerated her decl…
25y · Female·injuries sustained in fall from height
A 25-year-old woman with depression died by jumping from the West Gate Bridge. In the two months before her death, she attended four general practitioners across two medical practices with depression and anxiety, was com…
72y · Female·Bronchopneumonia
Diane Young, a 72-year-old psychiatric resident with multiple comorbidities including asthma, aortic stenosis, and intellectual disability, died of bronchopneumonia with contributing ischaemic heart disease. She was seen…
26y · Male·amylobarbital overdose
Geoffrey Reginald Bragge, aged 26 at presumed death, disappeared on 31 August 1971 following discharge from St Vincent's Hospital psychiatric unit after treatment for a drug overdose. Unidentified remains found in the Ya…
64y · Female·unascertained
Jeanette Bramley, a 64-year-old woman with chronic paranoid schizophrenia resident in aged care, was found unresponsive on the floor of her room and died despite 50 minutes of CPR. Post-mortem examination could not defin…
37y · Female·Drowning
Nicole McCarroll, a 37-year-old woman with a significant psychiatric history including depression and previous suicide attempts, died by drowning on 22 January 2010. She had experienced a domestic dispute the previous da…
26y · Male·multiple injuries
Carl Ranthe, a 26-year-old with schizophrenia, presented to Frankston ED on 1 January 2009 after a fight and alcohol consumption. Social worker Manfred Rapp conducted a 15-minute assessment, found Carl not psychotic, low…
48y · Male·Multiple injuries consistent with a jump from a height (14 storeys); broken neck…
Gareth Thornton, aged 48, with a 24-year history of paranoid schizophrenia, died from multiple injuries sustained in a 14-storey fall from his housing commission flat in Carlton, Melbourne, on 15 December 2007. The coron…
55y · Male·gastrointestinal malignancy, probably carcinoma of the pancreas
John William Brown was a 55-year-old male admitted as an involuntary patient with terminal pancreatic cancer diagnosed in October 2007. He was transferred from psychiatric care to a palliative care unit in November 2008 …
55y · Male·carbon monoxide toxicity
A 55-year-old man with longstanding depression and alcohol use disorder died from carbon monoxide toxicity after deliberately inhaling motor vehicle exhaust in a remote forest location. He had posted a suicide note to Pa…
40y · Male·carbon monoxide poisoning
A 40-year-old male sex offender on community-based orders died by carbon monoxide poisoning on 24 August 2009, two days after a serious suicide attempt involving his car. He had been assessed at Frankston Hospital ED on …
43y · Male·hypoxic brain injury secondary to asphyxiation by ligature
A 43-year-old man died from hypoxic brain injury due to asphyxiation by ligature while an inpatient at a rehabilitation centre. He had undergone spinal surgery for back pain and cauda equina syndrome but was failing to i…
[47, 77]y · ["male", "female"]·["gunshot injury to head (self-inflicted)", "neck compression"]
Two coronial findings are provided. First, Bayden Roy Smith, 47, died by self-inflicted gunshot wound hours after crisis mental health assessment at Broadmeadows Police Station. The CAT team assessed him as low-risk and …
19y · Male·Hanging (intentional suicide)
This is a coronial finding into the death of Duke Mataku Tera, a 19-year-old of Maori descent who died by hanging on 1 May 2007. Duke had a history of depression, substance abuse, anger management issues, and previous su…
55y · Male·Multiple injuries sustained in a fall
Patrick Tolan, a 55-year-old man with chronic depression, alcohol dependence, and multiple suicide attempts, died from injuries sustained in a fall from a shopping centre sign. He had jumped from a parapet four years ear…
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