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Lloyd Jones

UNCOVERED: Inmate violently resistant post seizure before cuffed - The Untold Story

Rules were not followed at Darwin Correctional Centre for checking a prisoner deemed to be at risk. ((A)manda Parkinson/AAP PHOTOS)

Rules to ensure "at-risk" prisoners are closely monitored were not followed when a man who had a seizure was left naked in an observation cell, an inquest has heard.

Wayne Hunt was "violently resistant" as Northern Territory prison guards struggled to calm him before he was handcuffed and put in a spit hood, the coronial hearing on his death in custody was told on Tuesday.

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