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Security at Western Australia s quarantine hotels will be bolstered after a review sparked by the escape of a woman who failed to complete 14 days in supervised isolation.
Acting Premier and Health Minister Roger Cook says the review s three recommendations will ensure the continued integrity of a system which has already catered for more than 30,000 people, including about 25,000 returned international travellers.
At the same time it was also revealed police had received more than 2000 complaints from guests unhappy with their treatment in the quarantine system.
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The increased security arrangements include new protocols for dealing with people who have breached quarantine requirements or are considered a risk of doing so.
00:01 EDT, 29 December 2020
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Hotel quarantine security guards in Western Australia will be given the power to detain people after a conspiracy theorist escaped a Perth hotel.
Jenny Maree D Ubios, 49, was seven days into her 14-day quarantine when she left the Pan Pacific Hotel on Saturday morning.
Ms D Ubios made social media threats to leave the hotel before doing so and even called police just after 10am on Boxing Day and threatened to leave.
The Pan Pacific is not a high-risk quarantine hotel and with no police guard to stop her, Ms D Ubios simply walked out with her face mask dangling uselessly under her chin.
Jenny Maree D Ubios, 49, refused to be tested for Covid and bizarrely claimed that it didn t exist before fleeing the Pan Pacific Hotel one week into her mandatory detention.
20:49 EDT, 17 December 2020
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Five men have been charged with the fatal stabbing of a heroic 17-year-old boy who was trying to defend his friend at a party.
Chikayne-Nadante Heslip died in Rockingham Hospital after being stabbed outside the house party in Waikiki, south of Perth, on Saturday night.
Police allege the selfless Mr Heslip had come to the aid of his friends before being chased from the party and attacked by a group of gatecrashers at two different locations.
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Chikayne-Nadante Heslip died in Rockingham Hospital after being stabbed outside the house party in Waikiki, south of Perth on Saturday night (pictured)
Crime by Kate Kyriacou, Thomas Chamberlin 14th Dec 2020 1:13 PM
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