Veronica Nelson handled inhumanely before jail death, jail officer concedes

CCTV shows Brown, nurse Atheana George and two other jail officers present Nelson with paracetamol although a cell trap door about 1.30am. It was the final time staff saw her alive.

Throughout Brown’s nightshift, the coroner heard Nelson went on to make nine additional requires assist over the jail intercom, including a final two conversations Lacy described as “haunting” and “chilling”. Nothing was heard from Nelson after 4am. Her body was discovered later that morning.

Attending paramedics believed she had been useless for a while.

Taking to the witness stand for the primary time on Friday after a failed Supreme Court battle to suppress her identification, Brown revealed she now believed she ought to’ve finished more to help Nelson throughout her final hours.

Brown accepted she had an obligation of care to Nelson and may have gone to check on the 37-year-old after the inmate grew to become unresponsive throughout her closing intercom call. She also accepted Nelson was deprived of “sufficient” medical care throughout her stay and never treated humanely.

The jail officer was additionally important of the medical care supplied to inmates and the condition by which some arrived on the Yarra unit. She said evening nurses usually refused to walk the 200 metres from the medical unit to the Yarra unit to see sufferers during the evening.

Jail officers usually are not permitted to name triple zero and extra senior staff would need to be contacted to do that in any emergency, Brown said.

An post-mortem later found Nelson had the undiagnosed medical condition Wilkie’s syndrome, a rare but doubtlessly life-threatening gastrointestinal condition.

Rishi Nathwani, representing Nelson’s mother, was crucial of Brown’s action and pressed the prison officer on an internal overview that praised her actions.

Nathwani said in the assessment, Dame Phyllis Frost basic supervisor Tracey Jones said she was “proud” of the way Nelson was handled in her final hours and that Brown “sensitively managed the intercom calls”.

Prison CCTV exhibits Tracey Brown, far proper, attending Nelson’s jail cell alongside nurse Atheana George about 1.30am the day of Nelson’s loss of life.

On the stand, Brown disagreed. Jones is due to give evidence subsequent week.

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