A policewoman who saw a fellow officer fatally shoot an Aboriginal woman with known mental health issues tells a coronial inquiry additional training was unlikely to have prevented the victim's death.
A coronial inquiry is examining the circumstances leading up to an Aboriginal woman being fatally shot by a police officer in Geraldton in 2019.The inquiry has today been told additional mental health and cultural training received in the wake of the incident was unlikely to have prevented her death.
At the time, she was holding a 30-centimetre serrated edged knife and a pair of scissors it's believed she took from a relative's house earlier that day. Coroner Fogliani was told JC was known to Geraldton police and had a history of mental health issues which saw her flown to Graylands Hospital, an in patient mental health facility in Perth, to receive care on multiple occasions.
"With the way the incident played out I don't believe that knowledge would have assisted the outcome," she said.
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