Senior constable Shelly Burgess tells WA inquest her colleague accused Ms Dhu of being a junkie’ and faking illness in the hours before she diedA police officer who had been told Ms Dhu was “a fucking junkie” thought the 22-year-primitive Yamatji woman was “acting” when she fell unconscious and her eyes rolled back in her head shortly after arriving at hospital,even though the officer knew Dhu had hit her head on a concrete floor, a coronial inquest has heard.
Dhu, and whose first name is not used for cultural reasons,was diagnosed as being in cardiac arrest and declared dead under an hour later at 1.39pm on 4 August 2014, after doctors spent 53 minutes trying to revive her.
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Source: theguardian.com