After reviewing the inhumane jailhouse death of Veronica Nelson,coroner Simon McGregor has called for a sweeping overhaul of bail laws that put the vulnerable at risk.
Three years ago Veronica Nelson died alone on the floor of her prison cell. Her alleged crime,shoplifting. Her mother is urging the state government to act on a coroner’s findings,to be released on Monday.
Andrew Berry,41,lost consciousness while in the back of a police divisional van without air-conditioning following his arrest at a podiatry clinic in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs in January 2020.
Gabriel Messo’s family called mental health services for help 21 times between May and July 2020,until he attacked his mother and was fatally shot by police.
A coroner has found the failure of Victoria Police to abandon a policy of single-officer patrols three years before a fatal shooting in 2013 contributed to Vlado Micetic’s death.
Thirteen years after Krystal Lee Fraser vanished in northern Victoria,the coroner says she was killed,with local man Peter Jenkinson probably ‘involved in what happened’.
An independent report commissioned by the AFL into its former concussion advisor Paul McCrory has identified possible adverse findings involving two people,delaying a possible inquest into the death of former Richmond footballer Shane Tuck.
Gabriel Messo was shot three times by police while stabbing his mother with a stick. His inquest was told he may have dropped the stick before the third shot was fired.
Anthony James Georgiou was heard screaming ‘help me,help me,let me go’ after being wrestled to the floor by two guards at Bunnings’ Frankston store in September 2016.
Drug deaths dropped to 500 in Victoria,continuing a downward trend since 2018,but deaths involving methamphetamine hit their highest in a decade.
Police did not take a man’s murder threat seriously,coroner hears,as the victim was so generally disliked in a small Victorian community that the warning came as no surprise.