Underworld figure may have 'progressively suffocated' while pinned by prison guards, inquest hears
Underworld figure Hizir Ferman may have"progressively suffocated" to death when Victorian prison officers used their body weight to pin him to the ground after forcibly removing him from his cell, an inquest has been told.
An inquest into the prisoner's death was told he had earlier assaulted two guards before returning to his cell and refusing to communicate with prison staff. In opening the inquest, counsel assisting the coroner Daniel Nguyen said prison staff sprayed tear gas through the only window in Ferman's cell before forcibly removing him to a shower area to wash him down.
"Hizir vomited and a member of the extraction team called out 'code black' before he was dragged to receive first aid from nursing staff waiting outside the accommodation block."
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