NSW coroner says prison guards had failed to provide adequate care to 35-year-old who had called for help more than 20 times
A coroner said it was “horrific” and “disgraceful” that Eric Whittaker, a Gamilaraay man who died in hospital after suffering a brain haemorrhage in prison, had been shackled to the bed in the last days of his life despite being unconscious and unresponsive.
The New South Wales coroner, Teresa O’Sullivan, found that prison officers had failed to recognise signs of emergency and failed to provide adequate care to 35-year-old Whittaker, who called for help more than 20 times in the hours before he was transported, unconscious, to hospital.
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