A coronial inquest into the death of indigenous woman, Rebecca Maher, while in police custody at Maitland in 2016, has heard officers didn’t physically check on her welfare in the hours before her death.
A medical expert today told the Newcastle inquest that if Ms Maher had been examined by officers in her cell, rather than visually from outside, police would have noticed breathing difficulties.
Ms Maher was found dead at around 6am – an autopsy found it was due to “mixed drug toxicity.”
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