{"id":571893,"date":"2026-03-29T10:55:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T10:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/571893\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T10:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T10:55:16","slug":"coroner-to-investigate-after-northern-territory-records-two-deaths-in-custody-in-a-week-northern-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/571893\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner to investigate after Northern Territory records two deaths in custody in a week | Northern Territory"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 26-year-old man died at Darwin correctional centre on Saturday, Northern Territory<\/a> police said.<\/p>\n

It was the territory\u2019s second reported death in custody in just a matter of days.<\/p>\n

The man was found unresponsive in his cell by correctional officers at around 7:50am on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cMedical assistance was provided but the man was declared deceased at the scene. The death is not believed to be suspicious,\u201d NT police said in a statement<\/a>. A report will be prepared for the coroner.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday evening, a 25-year-old man died in police custody in Darwin<\/a>\u2019s northern suburbs, after police arrested him following reports of an assault at a retirement village in Casuarina.<\/p>\n

They detained him in the rear cage of a police vehicle.<\/p>\n

Police said that a short time later the man had laboured breathing. St John Ambulance was contacted while police began CPR. The formal cause of death has not been determined.<\/p>\n

\u201cSt John Ambulance members attended and conveyed the man to Royal Darwin Hospital where he was later declared deceased at 10:10pm,\u201d a police statement about the Tuesday death said.<\/p>\n

\u201cA crime scene was established at the police vehicle and the location of arrest.\u201c<\/p>\n

The NT major crime unit was investigating the death, with oversight from the Professional Standards Command. Police were also investigating the death on behalf of the coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 26-year-old man died at Darwin correctional centre on Saturday, Northern Territory police said. It was the territory\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-571893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}