NSW coroner critical over death in custody of Tane Chatfield in Tamworth

By Luke Costin
Updated August 26 2020 - 4:55pm, first published 4:30pm
FAMILY: Tane Chatfield's partner Merinda Murphy, and his parents Colin and Nioka. The prison system inadequately cared for Tane Chatfield before he killed himself, a coroner says.
FAMILY: Tane Chatfield's partner Merinda Murphy, and his parents Colin and Nioka. The prison system inadequately cared for Tane Chatfield before he killed himself, a coroner says.

A senior prison nurse who provided "cursory and inadequate" care for an Indigenous inmate in the hour before he took his life in a NSW jail has been referred to a professional standards board.

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