Coroner recommends alternatives to arrest following death in Normanton

Derek Barry
Updated October 5 2019 - 9:42am, first published October 4 2019 - 7:52am
The state coroner has recommended police use alternatives to arrest while investigating the death of a man after a Normanton incident in 2016.
The state coroner has recommended police use alternatives to arrest while investigating the death of a man after a Normanton incident in 2016.

State coroner Terry Ryan has recommended Queensland Police use more discretion and alternatives to arrest for public nuisance and other low level offences, after the death of an Aboriginal man in Normanton in 2016.

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Derek Barry

Derek Barry

Editor, the North West Star

Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.

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