I remember this case and I wondered what had happened to that man in the 45 minutes he was detained at the police station. Now there is a movie about the case, and I hope it screens at my local cinema as I would like to go and see it: Also: http://www.hopscotchfilms.com.au/films/out-now/thetallman-thefilm/ Reminds me of the Aboriginal bloke who was thrown into the back of a police van and who died because the back of the van was so hot. Can't remember that guys name, though.
That was Mr Ward. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/14/australia-aborigine-cooked-prison-van Australian Aboriginal prisoner 'cooked to death' in van Security guards failed to check on man who died travelling 250 miles in back of van in 47C heat. A coroner has found that an Aboriginal man was "cooked to death" after he spent four hours in the back of a security van in searing heat with no air conditioning as it drove across the goldfields of south-west Australia. The 46-year-old Aboriginal elder suffered third degree burns after collapsing in the heat and falling to the floor of the van while it travelled 250 miles from Laverton to Kalgoorlie in 47C heat. Ward, whose first name cannot be used because of an Aboriginal cultural prohibition that forbids relatives from naming their dead, had been arrested a day earlier in January 2008 for drink driving. He was given 600ml (one pint) of water before boarding the van but the coroner found he died before he could finish drinking it. His body temperature was so high that when he arrived unconscious at Kalgoorlie hospital, medical staff could not cool his body down, despite giving him an ice bath. He also had a cut on his head from falling in the van and a third-degree burn to his stomach from lying on the vehicle's hot metal floor.
Yeah, that one. Horrific story. What were those cops thinking, putting him in the back of that thing, knowing how hot it was?
