'It's time for this to stop': Aboriginal woman dies in custody 20 years after her father

Family of an Aboriginal woman who died after falling unconscious in custody in Perth say arrest was a case of mistaken identity

The family of an Aboriginal woman who died in custody in Perth last week say she was mistakenly arrested by police who did not check her identity before restraining her in her mother’s house, hours before she lost consciousness.

Cherdeena Wynne, 26, died in hospital on Tuesday, five days after she became unresponsive while handcuffed by police on a side street off Albany Highway.

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