'Discriminatory impact on First Nations people': coroner calls for urgent bail reform in Veronica Nelson inquest
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2023
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Sarre, R.
Bartels, L.
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A Victorian coroner has called for swift reform of bail laws when handing down his findings into the death of 37-year-old Aboriginal woman Veronica Nelson.Nelson was suffering from an undiagnosed medical condition when she was arrested on suspicion of shoplifting and alleged breach of bail in January 2020. She was later found dead in her cell at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, despite using the intercom system about 40 times to alert staff to her deteriorating condition.Coroner Simon McGregor found “cruel” and “degrading” treatment of Nelson caused her preventable de.ath
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Copyright 2023 the author. This publication is available under a Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/)