Coroners Court of Victoria
‘Act now’: Coroner calls for urgent change after cyclist’s death at risky intersection
A coroner investigating the death of cyclist Angus Collins in Footscray this year has called on Victoria’s transport department to urgently address dual green light configurations at intersections.
- by Erin Pearson and Patrick Hatch
Latest
The mystery of the remains found inside a hospital’s ‘bone room’
A Victorian health service has recruited a law firm to investigate the identity of bones found in Box Hill Hospital this year, and how and when they got there.
- by David Estcourt
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Child protection
At-risk children left without support in caseworker staffing crisis
More than 100 at-risk children have no caseworker as child protection offices in Horsham, Hamilton and Portland have not been fully staffed for two years.
- by Bianca Hall
‘I’m up to no good, love you’: The year-long murder plot over a stolen chainsaw
Martin ‘Marty’ Sheahan hadn’t seen his former colleague for seven years the day the 64-year-old turned up at his home, shooting him twice with a sawn off shotgun through his front stained-glass window.
- by Erin Pearson
‘Our Annie’: Coroner, family call for changes after death of pregnant mother
Doctors failed to identify that Annie Moylan, unwell and 18 weeks pregnant, was suffering from sepsis before it was too late.
- by Erin Pearson
Child Protection were told about ‘Jack’ before he was born. Could they have saved him?
In Victoria, about 2000 child protection workers can face 25,000 open cases at any one time. The State Coroner is looking into four cases that ended in death.
- by Bianca Hall
Opinion
Prisons
Progressives who love Andrews should be troubled by coroner’s finding
Bail changes introduced by this government are the harshest in the country and have resulted in a soaring prison population, many of whom are Aboriginal.
- by Annika Smethurst
How Victoria’s bail laws work, and why they were changed
A Victorian coroner has slammed the state’s bail laws as a “complete, unmitigated disaster” and called for an overhaul. Here’s how the laws currently work.
- by Caroline Schelle
Damning coroner’s finding lays groundwork for ‘disaster’ bail laws to be reformed
After reviewing the inhumane jailhouse death of Veronica Nelson, coroner Simon McGregor has called for a sweeping overhaul of bail laws that put the vulnerable at risk.
- by Erin Pearson
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Deaths in custody
‘Swept under the rug’: A mother’s fight for justice
Three years ago Veronica Nelson died alone on the floor of her prison cell. Her alleged crime, shoplifting. Her mother is urging the state government to act on a coroner’s findings, to be released on Monday.
- by Erin Pearson
Coroner to examine death of man left unconscious in police van on hot day
Andrew Berry, 41, lost consciousness while in the back of a police divisional van without air-conditioning following his arrest at a podiatry clinic in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs in January 2020.
- by Erin Pearson