Veronica Nelson treated inhumanely before jail loss of life, prison officer concedes

CCTV reveals Brown, nurse Atheana George and two different prison officers provide Nelson with paracetamol though a cell entice door about 1.30am. It was the last time workers noticed her alive.

Throughout Brown’s nightshift, the coroner heard Nelson went on to make 9 further requires assist over the jail intercom, including a remaining 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 dead for a while.

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

Brown accepted she had an obligation of care to Nelson and will have gone to test on the 37-year-old after the inmate became unresponsive throughout her ultimate intercom name. She also accepted Nelson was deprived of “sufficient” medical care throughout her keep and never handled humanely.

The jail officer was additionally important of the medical care supplied to inmates and the condition during which some arrived at the Yarra unit. She said evening nurses usually refused to stroll the 200 metres from the medical unit to the Yarra unit to see patients through the night.

Jail officers aren't permitted to call triple zero and more senior employees would must be contacted to do that in any emergency, Brown stated.

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

Rishi Nathwani, representing Nelson’s mom, was crucial of Brown’s action and pressed the jail officer on an inner evaluation that praised her actions.

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

Prison CCTV shows Tracey Brown, far right, 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 next week.

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