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A corrections officer has told a coronial inquest he wasn't properly trained to conduct admissions interviews.

The coronial inquest into the death of Wayne Fella Morrison resumes this week, and is expected to continue until next month. Mr Morrison died in September 2016 at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, three days after he was pulled unresponsive from a prison van at Yatala Labour prison. The Wiradjuri, Kookatha and Wirangu man was handcuffed, restrained by ankle flexi-cuffs and bore a spit mask. The 29-year-old was then placed face down in the back of the van, with eight prison officers accompanying him from the prison's holding cells. Family demands answers Morrison's sister Latoya Rule told NITV News...

Updated: April 8, 2021, 8:10 am Police officers should support rangers to clamp down on “dirty camping”, a leading countryside expert has said in the aftermath of a spate of issues over Easter weekend. Richard Barron, chief operating officer with ScotWays, highlighted how greater police involvement in the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park deterred irresponsible campers from leaving a mess behind them. He said: “People would realise that sometimes a ranger would arrive, but the policeman might be just behind them as well.” We are asking readers to share their experiences of the �...

Police Scotland officer Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A “shocking” spike in hate crimes and incidents reported in Angus has been blamed on Brexit and Donald Trump. Angus Council scrutiny committee member and SNP councillor Julie Bell has raised concerns after police recorded 70 hate crimes and incidents in the county over a six-month period last year. Her comments come as a further 20 local officers were trained as hate crime specialists and one tasked with monitoring all incidents to identify emergin...

Sign up for our daily newsletter of the top stories in Courier country Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Vulnerable Angus residents lost more than £500,000 to con-artists in only five months last year. Criminals took advantage of lockdown to carry out scams including fake NHS and social care bonus payments and tricks involving Amazon Prime payments and fake council tax rebates. The total of 122 crimes between April and September last year was more than double that during the same period in the previous year....