Prison guard lied to Veronica Nelson in the hours before her death in custody, inquest told
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Inquest hears details of Indigenous woman's calls for assistance on morning of her death
A prison guard lied to Indigenous woman Veronica Nelson about calling a nurse to help her in the hours before she died, an inquest into her death has heard.
The inquest has been told Nelson screamed in pain and complained of cramps in her legs and fingers before she was found dead in her cell at Melbourne's Dame Phyllis Frost Centre in January 2020. The Yorta Yorta woman had made more than a dozen calls to prison guards for help on the night she died.
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