It was ‘incomprehensible’ that a police internal investigation into Cherdeena Wynne’s restraint found it was in line with policy and procedures, coroner finds
A Western Australian coroner has criticised police offices for their “woefully inadequate” monitoring of an Aboriginal woman’s breathing after she was pinned to the ground and lost consciousness before being allowed to sit up., one of whom had his knee on her shoulder blades and leg across her upper back for almost two minutes.
One officer, First Class Const Shaun O’Callaghan, placed one of his legs across Wynne’s hamstrings. Another, Sgt Jace Williams, put a leg over her upper back and kept it there while Wynne was placed in handcuffs. He said while the decision to handcuff Wynne in the prone position could be justified at the “very upper threshold of what I regard to be a reasonable response”, the time taken by police to remove their weight and sit her up was not justified.
That process, of handcuffing and removing the cannula, took 45 seconds. The footage shows she was held in a prone position for one minute and 50 seconds.
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