00:00Comanjai Dempsey, a much-loved mother of five who left north-west Queensland years ago for a new home in Tennant Creek.
00:10Remembered by loved ones as a hard worker and a devoted parent.
00:15Ten days after her death inside the Tennant Creek watch house, there's still no answers about how she died.
00:22While further testing is required to determine a formal cause of death,
00:25the current information suggests that the woman suffered a medical event alone in her cell.
00:31The 44-year-old was arrested for aggravated assault on Christmas Day and spent two days in the watch house.
00:38Police say she was found unresponsive during a routine check.
00:42Multiple sources say she suffered rheumatic heart disease.
00:46Police conducted a health check after her arrest where they say this wasn't flagged.
00:50Despite warnings in a coronial inquest and ombudsman reports,
00:55unlike Darwin and Alice Springs, no nursing staff work at the Tennant Creek watch house.
01:01In a statement, lawyers for her family say the government must be held accountable.
01:06Comanjai's death is particularly harrowing given the NT government's recent refusal
01:11to allow the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
01:14to conduct its scheduled inspection of Northern Territory detention centres, including watch houses.
01:20Months on from the death of Comanjai White in police custody,
01:24calls are again growing for an independent investigation.
01:28These are unfortunately the types of things that happen
01:31when we stretch our system beyond a breaking point.
01:34Police already rejecting those calls.
01:36I have full confidence in the detectives working this investigation
01:40and I have full confidence in the independent processes
01:43that already govern how police investigate death in custody matters.
01:48NT police have closed the crime scene as their investigation continues.
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