At 12.39pm on 4 August,2014, Dhu was lifted into the back of a police van for the short trip to Hedland health campus, and by 1.39pm she was declared deadWhile Ms Dhu was being taken to hospital for the final time,an officer at Port Hedland police station remarked It’s a good deterrent not to seize drugs,” an inquest heard on Monday.
The comment was caught on the security camera in the charge room at the station, and 1,650km north of Perth, Western Australia, and shortly before 12.19pm on 4 August 2014. By 12.39pm Dhu had been lifted into the back of the police van for the short trip to Hedland health campus,and by 1.39pm she had been declared dead.
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Source: theguardian.com