Mother ‘casually lit a cigarette’ before discovering toddlers dead in car

Mother ‘casually lit a cigarette’ before discovering toddlers dead in car

A coronial inquest in Brisbane has heard what a woman did before and after she found her children’s lifeless bodies in the back of her car.

  • byCloe Read

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Inquest hears of how toddlers were failed in their final moments

Inquest hears of how toddlers were failed in their final moments

A mother texted “oops” when explaining how she had left her child in a car all night. It was one of several failures before toddlers Darcey-Helen and Chloe-Ann Conley died after they were left in a hot car.

  • byCloe Read
Kids jailed in Unit 18 denied medication if they were violent,inquest told

Kids jailed in Unit 18 denied medication if they were violent,inquest told

Medication was withheld from detainees if they assaulted staff,an inquest into the death of Cleveland Dodd has been told.

  • byAaron Bunch
Unit 18 ‘inhumane’ and a ‘war zone’ before Perth teen’s death

Unit 18 ‘inhumane’ and a ‘war zone’ before Perth teen’s death

A nurse who tried to save an Indigenous teen who harmed himself in the youth wing of an adult prison has told an inquest the unit was like a war zone and conditions were inhumane.

  • byAaron Bunch
Unit 18 probationary guard given two hours’ notice before filling senior role,inquest told

Unit 18 probationary guard given two hours’ notice before filling senior role,inquest told

The guard said a senior officer sat with her and showed her how to fill in a series of reports before leaving her to oversee detainees and staff for the night shift.

  • byAaron Bunch
WA teenage prisoners in grip of self-harm ‘epidemic’:guard

WA teenage prisoners in grip of self-harm ‘epidemic’:guard

An Indigenous teen’s death after he harmed himself in detention was a preventable tragedy,the corrections officer who found him in his cell has told an inquest.

  • byAaron Bunch
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Why Unit 18 guards watched movies while on the job

Why Unit 18 guards watched movies while on the job

A Unit 18 prison guard has told the coroner’s inquest into the death of Cleveland Dodd it was common for staff to watch movies and other programs while working the night shift.

  • byAaron Bunch
Cleveland Dodd inquest:Youth wing in high-security prison ‘set up to fail’

Cleveland Dodd inquest:Youth wing in high-security prison ‘set up to fail’

The corrections worker who found Cleveland Dodd after he self-harmed says the prison unit where the incident happened “was set up to fail”.

  • byAaron Bunch
‘I’m through’:Cleveland Dodd’s final day at Unit 18 laid bare as inquest begins

‘I’m through’:Cleveland Dodd’s final day at Unit 18 laid bare as inquest begins

Teenager Cleveland Dodd threatened to self harm eight times on the day he tried to take his life at the Unit 18 youth wing of Casuarina Prison,an inquest has been told.

  • byJesinta Burton
Mystery acid burns covered body of mother-of-three before death,inquest told
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Mystery acid burns covered body of mother-of-three before death,inquest told

The body of former nurse Monika Chetty was covered in burns,which were untreated for weeks. But no one knows how she got them.

  • byClare Sibthorpe
‘Inappropriate and unsafe’ training session before NRL player died

‘Inappropriate and unsafe’ training session before NRL player died

An intense training session on the first day of Manly’s pre-season in 2020 was beyond Keith Titmuss’ aerobic capacity,a coronial inquest into his death has heard.

  • byAdam Pengilly