Tanya Day's race played no part in decision to call police, train conductor tells inquest

Shaun Irvine tells death-in-custody inquest he had an Aboriginal friend and can’t recall noticing woman’s race

A train conductor who called police on Tanya Day has rejected a suggestion that he was influenced by unconscious racism, telling a coronial inquest that he had a close Aboriginal friend.

Day, a 55-year-old Yorta Yorta woman, was arrested by police for public drunkenness after being taken off the V/Line train at Castlemaine on 5 December, 2017, and died 17 days later from a brain haemorrhage caused by a traumatic head injury sustained when she fell in the police cells.

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