David Dungay inquest: guards who restrained Indigenous man before he died won't be disciplined

Coroner finds guards’ conduct was ‘not motivated by malicious intent’ but ‘was a product of misunderstanding’

None of the five guards who restrained David Dungay before his death in Long Bay prison should face disciplinary action, a coroner has found.

Dungay, who had diabetes and schizophrenia, was in Long Bay Jail hospital at the time of his death, aged 26, in November 2015. Guards stormed his cell after he refused to stop eating a packet of biscuits.

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