Coroner’s court hears it took corrections officers nearly two hours to find body of Tarsha Golightly, 18, on 27 July Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast An 18-year-old mother killed herself in a Melbourne prison yard just five days after being moved out of youth detention. Her body was not discovered for almost two hours, a coroner’s court has heard. Tarsha Golightly was on remand – she was an unsentenced prisoner yet to be found guilty of any offence – when she died on 27 July at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre (DPFC), in Melbourne’s west. The coroner’s court heard on Friday that details of whether she had applied for bail would form part of a mandatory inquest into her death. The fact that corrections officers took almost two hours to discover her body – and after fellow prisoners raised the alarm – will also be examined. The prison yard was covered by CCTV cameras, Friday’s hearing heard. No details were heard in the court about what charges Golightly faced, nor the reasons for her relocation from the Parkville youth justice centre to women’s prison. But bail laws described by the Victorian government as the “toughest in Australia” came into effect only wee
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From ergonomic memory foam to luxury goose down, Australia’s options for where to lay your head are enough to make it spin. So how do you choose the perfect pillow? The room inside Hästens’s “sleep spa” is calming. Lights dimmed low, soft…
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