Article 5HVAM Dozens of unanswered questions: inquest attempts to unravel the death in custody of Wayne Fella Morrison

Dozens of unanswered questions: inquest attempts to unravel the death in custody of Wayne Fella Morrison

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Royce Kurmelovs
from World news | The Guardian on (#5HVAM)

Five years since the Indigenous man died in an Adelaide hospital, prison guards with him in his final hours avoid key questions

I do not recall", I don't remember", I cannot recollect" - these were the phrases heard at least 45 times during Friday's hearings in courtroom nine of the South Australian supreme court.

In just two hours of stilted evidence given by two prison guards involved in the restraint and transport of 29-year-old Indigenous man, Wayne Fella Morrison, prior to his death, the coroner gleaned little about the events of 23 September 2016.

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