Indigenous woman’s screams for help before her death were ‘excruciating’, fellow inmate tells inquest

Veronica Nelson died in a Melbourne jail in early 2020 and a woman who was in a nearby cell has told an inquest authorities let her die'

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Prison staff allegedly left Indigenous woman Veronica Nelson to die in her cell after she screamed for help for hours, a former inmate has told an inquest.

Aboriginal woman Kylie Bastin was in a cell close to Nelson's at Melbourne's Dame Phyllis Frost Centre on the evening of 1 January 2020.