Veronica Nelson treated inhumanely before jail demise, jail officer concedes

CCTV shows Brown, nurse Atheana George and two different jail officers provide Nelson with paracetamol though a cell entice 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 prison intercom, including a last two conversations Lacy described as “haunting” and “chilling”. Nothing was heard from Nelson after 4am. Her body was found later that morning.

Attending paramedics believed she had been useless for some time.

Taking to the witness stand for the primary time on Friday after a failed Supreme Court fight to suppress her identity, Brown revealed she now believed she should’ve executed more to assist Nelson throughout her last hours.

Brown accepted she had a duty of care to Nelson and should have gone to test on the 37-year-old after the inmate turned unresponsive throughout her final intercom call. She additionally accepted Nelson was deprived of “ample” medical care during her stay and never treated humanely.

The jail officer was also important of the medical care provided to inmates and the condition during which some arrived on the Yarra unit. She mentioned night time nurses often refused to stroll the 200 metres from the medical unit to the Yarra unit to see patients during the night time.

Prison officers should not permitted to name triple zero and more senior workers would need to be contacted to try this in any emergency, Brown mentioned.

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

Rishi Nathwani, representing Nelson’s mom, was critical of Brown’s motion and pressed the prison officer on an inside review that praised her actions.

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

Prison CCTV shows Tracey Brown, far proper, attending Nelson’s prison cell alongside nurse Atheana George about 1.30am the day of Nelson’s demise.

On the stand, Brown disagreed. Jones is because of give evidence subsequent week.

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