206 results for “schizophrenia”
37y · Male·water intoxication and olanzapine toxicity in association with schizophrenia
A 37-year-old Aboriginal male prisoner with a long history of treatment-resistant schizophrenia died at the Darwin Correctional Precinct. He was on high-dose olanzapine (15mg twice daily) and zuclop…
42y · Male·Drowning following chest injuries sustained from jumping from the Tasman Bridge
A 42-year-old man with long-standing, well-managed paranoid schizophrenia died by suicide from the Tasman Bridge. He had been compliant with clozapine therapy for over 20 years…
50y · Male·coronary artery atherosclerosis causing sudden fatal cardiac arrhythmia
Ejub Mehinovic, a 50-year-old man with treatment-resistant paranoid schizophrenia managed on clozapine, died from coronary artery atherosclerosis causing sudden fatal cardiac arrhythmi…
25y · Male·unable to determine
Tyrone Frederick MacQueen disappeared on 1 July 1994 at age 25. He had chronic schizophrenia with poor medication compliance, recent psychiatric hospitalization, expressed suicidal ideation, self…
35y · Male·Complications of morbid obesity in a man with cardiomegaly and schizophrenia
Alexander McCulloch, a 35-year-old man with schizophrenia, morbid obesity (BMI 45), and cardiomegaly, was found dead in bed. Autopsy attributed death to complic…
60y · Male·Hypertrophy of the heart
A 60-year-old man with longstanding schizophrenia and severe emphysema died at a mental health facility from cardiac hypertrophy (heart weight 730g, nor…
89y · Female·multi-organ failure on a background of urinary sepsis
…ed of multi-organ failure secondary to urinary sepsis at a nursing home. She had longstanding paranoid schizophrenia and was subject to a guardianship order. This inquest was mandatory because her death occurred while u…
30y · Male·neck compression
Mohamed Omar, a 30-year-old man with schizophrenia, died in Melbourne Assessment Prison on 25 June 2017 from neck compression while on remand. He had a h…
Deaths from injuries sustained in a mass stabbing attack
…ck at Westfield Bondi Junction on 13 April 2024. The perpetrator, Joel Cauchi, had treatment-resistant schizophrenia and had ceased antipsychotic medication. Key clinical findings identified serious deficiencies in psyc…
37y · Male·Combined effects of presumed heavy metal poisoning from an unknown material and …
A 37-year-old man with schizophrenia died between 14–18 August 2020 in bushland near Whiteman Creek NSW, from presumed heavy metal poisonin…
40y · Male·Victims: fatal stab wounds from knife attack; Joel Cauchi: fatal gunshot wounds …
Joel Cauchi, a 40-year-old man with chronic treatment-resistant schizophrenia, carried out a stabbing attack at Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre in Sydney on 13 April 2024,…
36y · Male·mixed drug toxicity
Justin Blade Stewart, a 36-year-old man with a long history of schizophrenia managed with antipsychotic medications, died from mixed drug toxicity. He was found deceased at home a…
72y · Male·exsanguination (blood loss) from severed femoral artery
Stephen Maxwell Powell, a 72-year-old man with schizophrenia, died by exsanguination from a self-inflicted femoral artery laceration. He was discharged from psychi…
49y · Male·undetermined - likely natural medical condition but cause could not be determine…
Jason Lindburg, a 49-year-old man with schizophrenia, was found deceased in advanced decomposition on 4 February 2021, having last been seen alive on 12 No…
24y · Male·multiple stab wounds to the chest that he inflicted upon himself
A 24-year-old man with diagnosed schizophrenia experienced a relapse and engaged in a dangerous spree involving vehicle theft, assault, and police pu…
23y · Male·Unable to be determined from available evidence
…vered via DNA matching. In the months before his disappearance, Ben developed symptoms consistent with schizophrenia including paranoia, delusions, and social withdrawal. He was treated by mental health services and pre…
50y · Male·Unable to be determined
Colin Campbell, a 50-year-old man with a long history of schizophrenia, alcohol dependence, hepatitis C, and cirrhosis, disappeared on 29 May 2015 and is presumed deceased. …
45y · Male·unable to determine
Peter Anthony Millett, a 45-year-old man with schizophrenia, disappeared on 27 August 2013 and is presumed deceased. In the weeks preceding his disappearance, his…
45y · Male·Complications of heat stroke in a man with schizophrenia
Christopher Dokos, a 45-year-old man with schizophrenia on Clozapine treatment, died during the extraordinary January 2014 Victorian heatwave. He had multiple…
63y · Male·pulmonary emphysema
Stanley McIntyre, a 63-year-old man with severe treatment-resistant schizophrenia, died from pulmonary emphasema on 23 June 2021 while subject to a Psychiatric Treatment Order. He had …
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