Coroner's Finding: Fowles, Wayne Lincoln
59y · Male·hanging
A 59-year-old man with major depression and psychotic features was lawfully detained under an inpatient treatment order at Noarlun…
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59y · Male·hanging
A 59-year-old man with major depression and psychotic features was lawfully detained under an inpatient treatment order at Noarlun…
34y · Male·unascertained (suspected suicide, but body not located so no post-mortem examina…
Simon Harrington, a 34-year-old man with depression and psychotic features, disappeared on 10 January 2011 after starting a new job that triggered a…
3y · Male·smothering
…3-year-old boy died from smothering by his mother, who was suffering from severe bipolar affective disorder with psychotic features and severe depression. The coroner examined whether psychiatric care was inadequate. The…
85y · Male·hospital acquired pneumonia on a background of metastatic colorectal carcinoma
…om hospital-acquired pneumonia on a background of metastatic colorectal cancer. He was admitted to hospital with psychotic depression, suicidal ideation, and severe malnutrition after two years of depression. A CT scan r…
86y · Male·pulmonary embolism following deep vein thrombosis
…spital on 26 May 2020. He was admitted under a Mental Health Act assessment order following a relapse of psychotic depression at his aged care facility. Clinical examination found no acute cause for his mental deteriora…
33y · Female·Mixed drug toxicity (propranolol, oxycodone, diazepam, temazepam, lurasidone, du…
…of infanticide following her daughter Lily's death in July 2021, which occurred during severe postpartum depression with psychotic features. Although Ms Arbuckle showed significant recovery and positive life progress in …
Female·unascertained
Two Indigenous women from the Pilbara disappeared in late 1998 without trace: Veronica Lockyer (33 years old) and her infant daughter Adell Partridge (7 months old). Veronica …
59y · Male·head injuries
…use mental health facility in April 2021. He developed sudden onset severe mental illness (anxiety disorder with depressive features, with possible psychotic depression) triggered by debilitating vestibular symptoms. Des…
15y · Female·neck compression due to hanging
Michaela Mundy, a 15-year-old with depression, was seen by CAMHS therapist Vina Hotich from July-November 2011, presenting with suicidal ideat…
57y · Male·Hanging
…Correctional Centre in January 2018. Although he had been psychiatrically assessed as experiencing major depression with psychotic features and was recommended by a psychiatrist for placement in a two-occupant cell as su…
31y · Female·drowning, deliberately self-inflicted with intention of ending life
Maria Rebekah Wright, a 31-year-old woman with severe borderline personality disorder and chronic suicidality, died by drowning at Howrah Beach, Tasmania …
53y · Male·asphyxia due to upper airway occlusion by a foreign body (blanket)
A 53-year-old man with complex psychiatric disorder (schizophrenia, depression, intellectual disability) died by asphyxiation afte…
43y · Female·neck compression due to hanging
A 43-year-old woman with longstanding depression and previous suicidal ideation presented to Emergency Department twice within 14 da…
42y · Female·salt water drowning
…ater drowning after absconding from Woodleigh House psychiatric unit on 3 September 1997. She had presented with major depression with psychotic features following a recent suicide attempt, and was appropriately detained…
71y · Male·Saddle pulmonary embolus as a consequence of deep venous thrombosis in the right…
…m a saddle pulmonary embolus secondary to deep vein thrombosis in his right calf, a complication associated with his history of multiple knee surgeries. He was admitted to Glenside Hospital on 14 July 2000 under Mental H…
65y · Male·Hanging
James Falzon, a 65-year-old man with psychotic depression admitted to Peter James Centre psychiatric ward, died by suicide via hanging. He had b…
62y · Male·Mr Evans: self-inflicted gunshot wound to head and asphyxiation by hanging. Mrs …
…chosis manifesting as delusions about chemical infestation of their home. The coroner found Mr Evans was psychotic at the time of death. From May 2013, Mr Evans presented repeatedly to general practitioners with escalat…
81y · Female·ischaemic bowel
An 81-year-old woman with longstanding depression and multiple comorbidities fell and fractured her humerus in March 2009. During reh…
44y · Male·Complications of blunt head injuries sustained in a motor vehicle incident (cycl…
…ing. The driver, who caused the collision, had a documented psychiatric history including schizophrenia, depression, psychosis, and polydrug abuse. Despite psychiatric treatment and psychiatric hospital admissions in 201…
70y · Female·bronchopneumonia
…ronchopneumonia while an involuntary inpatient at an aged psychiatry unit. She had longstanding anxiety, depression, and eating disorder with recent significant physical and mental health deterioration. Pneumonia was dia…
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