27y · Male·Cyanide toxicity
Phillip Reidy, 27, died from cyanide toxicity after ingesting sodium cyanide during police arrest for a family violence incident. He had purch…
50y · Female·Cyanide toxicity
… with complex mental illness including depression, anxiety, and borderline personality disorder died from cyanide toxicity after ingesting potassium cyanide obtained from Sigma-Aldrich. She made four attempts to purchas…
70y · Male·Cyanide Toxicity
…hony Lansell Churches, a 70-year-old man with a history of substance use and criminal offences, died from cyanide toxicity after absconding from St Vincent's Hospital's Emergency Department. He had been placed on an inv…
61y · Female·Gunshot injury to head
…ted by her husband on 29 March 2010 at their Mount Macedon home. Contributing factors included sertraline toxicity, benzodiazepine use, and alcohol consumption, which likely decreased her conscious state. The coroner fou…
77y · Female·Effects of fire
… smoke inhalation, with autopsy revealing carboxyhaemoglobin saturation of approximately 60% and elevated cyanide levels. The house lacked working smoke alarms, which the coroner noted might have provided early warning …
52y · Male·Effects of fire
A 52-year-old man died in a residential fire at his rental unit. He called 000 stating he couldn't get out, but emergency services were not dispatched because the call details were unclear and his location could not be r…
34y · Female·incineration and inhalation of products of combustion from motorised wheelchair …
Sandra Lee Rothwell, aged 34, died from incineration and inhalation of combustion products when a fire started in her motorised wheelchair while she was at home. She had severe cerebral palsy and was completely dependent…
29y · Female·Effects of fire
SR, a 29-year-old who died in a residential house fire in Werribee, Victoria on 26 November 2022. The fire originated from an electrical device (likely a vape or iPad) or smouldering cigarette in an upstairs bedroom. Whi…
Toxicity from intravenous caesium, DMSO, and other substances administered as pa…
…so, Sandra Kokalis, and Deborah Gruber) died within four consecutive days (25-28 May 2005) from treatment toxicity before completing 12 days of therapy. The coroner found the treatment was scientifically unproven, extrem…
32y · Male·Smoke inhalation
Deepak Kumar Prajapati, a 32-year-old Indian national, died in a house fire on 3 January 2008 from smoke inhalation. The fire originated from an overloaded electrical power board connected to a computer monitor in a bedr…
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