Reconciliation and Social Justice Library

ROYAL COMMISSION INTO

ABORIGINAL DEATHS IN CUSTODY

REPORT OF THE INQUIRY INTO THE DEATH OF

JAMBAJIMBA

• JAMBAJIMBA
  • INTRODUCTION
  • THE LEGACY OF INADEQUATE INVESTIGATIONS
  • A SHORT SURVEY OF THE BACKGROUND OF THE DECEASED
  • ARREST AND DETENTION 1979
  • THE DEATH OF JAMBAJIMBA AND THE ISSUES THAT AROSE FOR DETERMINATION
    • 4.1 INTRODUCTION
    • 4.2 THE ISSUES INVOLVED IN MY INQUIRY INTO THE DEATH
  • THE ALICE SPRINGS PRISON AND ASPECTS OF ITS REGIME
    • 5.1 PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF THE PRISON
    • 5.2 THE REGIME OF THE PRISON
    • 5.3 CONCLUSIONS
  • THE ACTUAL SITUATION ON THE NIGHT OF 15/16 JUNE 1980
    • 6.1 DESCRIPTION
    • 6.2 CONCLUSIONS
  • THE POST DEATH INVESTIGATION
    • 7.1 THE POLICE INVESTIGATION
    • 7.2 THE POST-MORTEM
    • 7.3 THE CORONIAL INQUEST
  • SOME PARTICULAR MATTERS AS TO CAUSE OF DEATH, INJURIES AND TIME OF DEATH
    • 8.1 OBSERVATIONS BY DR PERERA
    • 8.2 INJURIES FOUND AT AUTOPSY
    • 8.3 TIME OF DEATH
  • WAS THE HANGING SELF INFLICTED OR WAS THERE FOUL PLAY?
    • 9.1 MOTIVE
      • 9.1.1 MOTIVE FOR SELF HARM
      • 9.1.2 MOTIVE FOR FOUL PLAY
      • 9.1.3 SUMMARY AS TO MOTIVE
    • 9.2 ASSESSING THE EVIDENCE OF THOSE WITNESSES WHO WERE PRISONERS IN C WING
      • 9.2.1 EVIDENCE OF STEVEN WALKER JAGAMARRA
      • 9.2.2 EVIDENCE OF SYDNEY JOHN CAMPBELL
        • (a) Evidence of noise in cell block
        • (b) Cell clean up
      • 9.2.3 EVIDENCE OF CASEY ROBERTSON JUNGALA
      • 9.2.4 EVIDENCE OF MARSHALL POULSON
      • 9.2.5 EVIDENCE OF GUS FORBES
      • 9.2.6 EVIDENCE OF RONALD HUNT
      • 9.2.7 EVIDENCE OF PETER JACKO
      • 9.2.8 EVIDENCE OF NED WILSON JAGAMARRA
      • 9.2.9 EVIDENCE OF DISCUSSIONS FOLLOWING THE DEATH
      • 9.2.10 SUMMARY OF THE EVIDENCE FROM FELLOW PRISONERS AS TO WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE NIGHT
      • 9.3 ASSESSING THE EVIDENCE OF THE OFFICERS
      • 9.3.1 PRISON OFFICER KEAM
      • 9.4 THE CRITICISM OF THE EVIDENCE OF THR OFFICERS
        • 9.4.1 Prison Officer Keam
        • 9.4.2 Prison Officer White
        • 9.4.3 Prison Officer Bejah
      • 9.4.4 CONCLUSIONS
    • 9.5 THE QUESTION OF WHETHER THE HEAD INJURY COULD CAUSE LENGTHY CONCUSSION
    • 9.6 DID THE DECEASED INTEND TO TAKE HIS OWN LIFE?
  • WAS JAMBAJIMBA GIVEN PROPER CARE AND ATTENTION BY THE CUSTODIAL OFFICERS ON THE NIGHT OF HIS DEATH?
    • 10.1 CELL CHECKS
    • 10.2 CONCLUSIONS
  • WAS THE DECEASED PRESSURED BY EITHER PRISON OFFICERS OR POLICE OFFICERS IN SUCH A WAY AS MIGHT HAVE CAUSED HIM TO CONTEMPLATE SELF HARM?
    • 11.1 PRISON OFFICERS
    • 11.2 POLICE OFFICERS
      • 11.2.1 CONCLUSIONS
  • UNDERLYING ISSUES
    • 12.1 CORRECTIONAL ISSUES
    • 12.2 ABORIGINAL LEGAL AID SERVICES
    • 12.3 RESUSCITATION
    • 12.4 THE INVESTIGATION OF DEATH IN CUSTODY
    • SCHEDULE 1
    • SCHEDULE 2 LIST OF WITNESSES
    • SCHEDULE 3 LIST OF EXHIBITS
    • SCHEDULE 4: LIST OF GENERAL EXHIBITS
    • ANNEXURE 1: INTERIOR PLAN OF ALICE SPRINGS PRISON
    • ANNEXURE 2: PLAN OF CELLS IN 'C' WING ALICE SPRINGS PRISON