The family of Indigenous woman Shiralee Deanne Tilberoo has called on the coroner to prevent any more “degrading” deaths in custody.
Police face off with protestors in Brisbane after the death of Aunty Sherry Tilberoo in the city's police watchhouse.The 49-year-old’s death prompted Black Lives Matter protests across Brisbane in the following days.
“Sherry can never be defined solely by the degrading way she died or nor by her health issues or the way she lived her life,” Davina Tilberoo said. Professor Gericke said aneurysms were like a “pouch in the brain” that can fill with blood and rupture, causing death before a person can be transported to hospital in 25 per cent of cases with a further 45 per cent of sufferers dying within 30 days.
Counsel Assisting Sarah Lane asked if Aunty Sherry’s vomiting, which had been associated with her heroin-withdrawal symptoms, could have been a symptom of a ruptured aneurysm.
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