Indigenous death in NSW jail from ear infection ‘the result of systemic failures’: coroner

Douglas Mootijah' Shillingsworth's ear problems would have been picked up by proper procedures, coroner Joan Baptie finds

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The death of an Aboriginal man from an ear infection while in custody was preventable and due to failures in the New South Wales justice system, a coroner has found.

Douglas Mootijah" Shillingsworth, a Budjiti and Murrawarri man, died of a middle ear infection, known as otitis media, at the age of 44 on 15 February 2018 while incarcerated at the Silverwater prison in Sydney.