Tanya Day died in custody because of inadequate police checks, inquest hears

A coronial inquest is investigating whether racism played a part in the death of 55-year-old Indigenous woman

Aboriginal woman Tanya Day died in custody because police failed to conduct adequate checks and did not see her sustain the significant head injury that caused her death, a coronial inquest has heard.

Day, 55, died in Melbourne's St Vincent's hospital on 22 December 2017 from a brain haemorrhage caused by a traumatic brain injury sustained when she fell in the Castlemaine police cells on 5 December 2017.