AAP General News (Australia)
12-24-2009
Vic: Failure to fix cells inexcusable, lawyer says
A community lawyer says the Victorian government failed to remove hanging points from
an old cell in the Echuca lock-up .. where a man died on Tuesday night.
A 46-year-old married father .. named in The Age newspaper as off-duty paramedic STEPHEN
NIIT .. was arrested for being drunk in Echuca .. in Victoria's north .. and placed in
the police cells just after 8pm (AEDT).
He was found dead only 10 to 15 minutes later hanging from his shirt .. having apparently
committed suicide.
PETER NOBLE .. a solicitor at the Loddon Campaspe Legal Centre .. has told The Age
that police and the state government have not acted on a 2006 report on the condition
of police cells .. which noted that some older cells still had hanging points.
Mr NOBLE says the failure to fix such older cells is inexcusable.
AAP RTV jrd/af
KEYWORD: CUSTODY (MELBOURNE)
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