You rightly said that the royal coroner announced earlier this year that there would be an inquest. |
There has been a damning indictment of living conditions at a remote Aboriginal community by the West Australian coroner. |
The jury later wrote to the coroner, deploring the fact that an unseaworthy ship could put to sea with a drunken captain. |
The coroner accordingly left that verdict to the jury, and the jury returned a unanimous verdict of unlawful killing. |
The coroner recorded verdicts that the boys were unlawfully killed and their father took his own life. |
The coroner has written in acknowledgement, and will report in more detail at a later date. |