Prison officers failed to conduct checks while the Sydney mother fell gravely ill. Warning: this story contains images of an Aboriginal person who has died.
Warning: Distressing content. This story contains the name and image of a deceased Indigenous person. Tammy Shipley’s image has been reproduced with her family’s consent.The spasms give way to seizures that rock her entire body.
Tammy Shipley, a 47-year-old Aboriginal mother remembered by her family as loving, creative and kind, was in jail after being charged with trespassing, breaching her bail and shoplifting $23.10 worth of goods from Woolworths.An inquest into her death at the NSW Coroner’s Court has heard officers failed multiple times to conduct the required physical checks on Shipley, who had long suffered schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, over a period of nearly three hours.
Trad said the CCTV showed Shipley defecating on the floor, vomiting and breathing heavily that morning.
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