Coroner

The NT coroner gives sobering insight into the rates of suicide in the Northern Territory, telling an inquest into the death of Indigenous man Bernard ...

and 'joking and laughing' the day prior to his death." "Others at [Darwin Correctional Centre], including his cousin, did not … At an appointment with the alcohol and other drugs team on August 10, Mr Currie told the coroner that Mr Hector was found to be "relaxed" and said, "he sometimes felt a bit down but that he had no thoughts of self-harming". tell my mum". The Northern Territory coroner has given sobering insight into the rates of suicide in the Northern Territory, telling an inquest into the death of an Indigenous prisoner that the territory is in a "crisis". "The court has heard that there were two persons who noticed a change in Mr Hector in the period prior to his death," Mr McCarthy said.