Disabled NT man died naked in cell wearing spit hood and cuffs, inquest told

Wayne Hunt was kept in detention after a seizure instead of being taken to hospital, coroner hears

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An inmate who suffered a seizure was put in handcuffs and a spit hood by prison guards who left him naked in an at-risk cell" before he died two days later.

At an inquest into his death in Darwin on Monday, Northern Territory corrections and health departments apologised to the family of Wayne Hunt for the way he was treated and told the coroner, Elisabeth Armitage, that procedural changes would be made.