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57y · Male·Complications of opioid (hydromorphone and morphine) toxicity and incised wounds…
Leslie Hawkins, aged 57 with dementia and significant medical comorbidities, died from opioid toxicity and incised wrist wounds as part of a suicide pact with his terminally ill wife. Mrs Hawkins, diagnosed with advanced…
62y · Male·Incised wound to the neck
A 62-year-old man died from an incised neck wound inflicted by his son during a psychotic relapse. The son, with a 15-year history of schizophrenia managed in the community, was experiencing worsening psychotic symptoms …
50y · Male·gunshot wounds to chest and abdomen
Alexander Kuskoff, aged 50, was fatally shot by STAR Group officer DA on 16 September 2015 following a mental health crisis. Kuskoff displayed florid psychotic symptoms including paranoid delusions, was heavily armed, an…
53y · Female·Unable to determine; circumstances suggest death by suicide but body never recov…
Angela Joy Jeffrey, a 53-year-old woman with a long history of depression managed with antidepressants and psychiatric care, disappeared on 1 June 2016 from Bakers Beach, Tasmania. She had experienced a significant mood …
42y · Female·The combined effects of blunt force injuries to the head and penetrating injurie…
Traci O'Sullivan, 42-year-old woman, died from combined blunt force injuries to the head and penetrating injuries to the neck, chest and abdomen. The death occurred between 5-7 February 2015 at her home in Frankston Nort…
67y · Female·Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy in a woman with schizophrenia and cardiomega…
A 67-year-old woman with epilepsy, schizophrenia, and cardiomegaly died suddenly and unexpectedly at home in disability accommodation. The coroner determined the cause as sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). The …
30y · Male·gunshot wound to the head as a result of a police operation
Danukul Mokmool, aged 30, died on 26 July 2017 after being shot by NSW Police at Central Railway Station following a mental health crisis. He was experiencing acute psychosis with paranoid delusions that his family inten…
52y · Male·multiple organ failure and pulmonary thromboemboli complicating generalised seps…
A 52-year-old man with longstanding refusal of medical care presented with severe cellulitis, sepsis, and previously undiagnosed heart failure secondary to sleep apnoea. He lacked capacity to consent to treatment due to …
47y · Female·Overdose of hydromorphone
A 47-year-old woman died from an intentional overdose of prescribed hydromorphone while residing at a domestic violence refuge. She had a history of depression, previous suicide attempts, and was in crisis following sepa…
38y · Male·Unascertained; death in the waters of the Indian Ocean off Rottnest Island
Matthew James Bale, a 38-year-old man, disappeared from Rottnest Island on 21 March 2016 while on holiday with his wife and parents. He had a history of depression, alcohol and drug addiction, and recent drug-induced psy…
45y · Female·Hanging
A 45-year-old woman with bipolar affective disorder, borderline personality disorder, anorexia nervosa and depression died by hanging. She had chronic suicidal ideation and was managed in the community by a mental health…
43y · Female·Hypoxic ischaemic brain injury resulting from alcohol and sodium valproate toxic…
43-year-old woman with epilepsy and depression died from hypoxic ischaemic brain injury after ingesting 15g sodium valproate and 750ml vodka. Critical failures occurred across multiple settings: VPIC provided incomplete …
68y · Male·Cardiomegaly
James Kenneth Cowl, a 68-year-old man with severe cardiomyopathy, atrial fibrillation, schizophrenia, and intellectual disability, died suddenly from cardiomegaly while in residential care. An echocardiogram performed sh…
35y · Male·Unknown
Dennis Brooks, 35, a man with paranoid schizophrenia, disappeared from his Katoomba home on 2 May 2016 after exhibiting signs of psychotic relapse. Although his sister reported him missing on 4 May, a coordinated land se…
26y · Female·neck compression due to hanging
Juanita Lee McNamara-Cutler, a 26-year-old mother of three with a complex history of mental illness, substance abuse, and prior suicide attempts, died by hanging on 7 September 2014, three days after release on home dete…
46y · Male·immersion in the Indian Ocean
Andrew Michael Watson, a 46-year-old elevator technician, disappeared on 11 May 2013 after leaving a nightclub in Northbridge, Perth. His car was found at a dog beach carpark near the ocean. Notes in his car indicated su…
52y · Male·atherosclerotic and hypertensive heart disease
Stephen Thomas Oxley, a 52-year-old man with schizoaffective disorder managed on a Community Treatment Order, died of atherosclerotic and hypertensive heart disease. He had multiple modifiable cardiovascular risk factors…
28y · Male·Gunshot wound to the head
Christopher George, a 28-year-old man with a history of depression and suicidal ideation, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound while police conducted a welfare check at his home. He had stopped taking sertraline (ant…
38y · Male·ligature compression of the neck (hanging)
Mark Quenton Fleury, a 38-year-old man with paranoid schizophrenia, died by suicide on 14 February 2016 while subject to a Community Treatment Order. In the final week of his life, he presented to emergency services and …
33y · Female·Stab wounds to the chest (tension hemopneumothorax resulting from stab wounds)
A 33-year-old woman was fatally stabbed by her separated de facto partner following a 18-year relationship marked by escalating family violence. Multiple agencies had contact with the victim in the weeks before her death…
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