‘Police shouldn’t be investigating police’: family anger over death in custody inquest

Coroner raises questions over investigating officer’s perceived lack of independence in case of Aboriginal woman Tanya Day

The family of an Aboriginal woman who died in police custody have expressed frustration after the police officer who investigated her death on behalf of the coroner was not removed, despite the coroner raising questions over a perceived lack of independence.

Tanya Day, 55, died in hospital on 22 December 2017. She had been in a coma for 17 days, after falling and hitting her head at Castlemaine police station.

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