Analysis: the last day of hearings into the Yorta Yorta woman’s death in custody was an opportunity for police to apologise and promise policy change. They failed on both counts
Two hours into the evidence of the officer nominated by the chief commissioner of Victoria Police to give evidence at the inquest into the death in custody of Aboriginal woman Tanya Day, coroner Caitlin English called time.
“This witness was asked at my direction to come to court,” English said, interrupting a painful cross-examination from Peter Morrissey SC who was trying, at the instruction of Day’s family, to get some responses from police to the failures that led to their mother’s death. “Unfortunately she’s not able to cover quite a lot of the territory that I was hoping for.”
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