Eighteen-year-old Robert George Kenneth Malayta was found dead by police divers in the Ross River.
An Indigenous teen drowned as a "tragic consequence" of following his brother into a river to avoid being caught by police after driving in a stolen car, a coroner has found. Robert George Kenneth Malayta, 18, was found dead by police divers in the Ross River near the Townsville suburb of Kirwan in north Queensland on February 25, 2022.
" The dog squad was called in to try and find them but only came across a glove and a shoe in the water. Mr McLennan called his mother to ask whether his little brother had returned home after he didn't get out of the river, returning to the scene thinking Mr Malayta was lying injured. " broke down and cried 'mum I don't know where he is'," his mother recounted.
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