CORONERS ACT, 1975 AS AMENDED SOUTH AUSTRALIA FINDING OF INQUEST An Inquest taken on behalf of our Sovereign Lady the Queen at Adelaide in the State of South Australia, on the 10th and 11th days of February, and 13th day of March, 2000, before Wayne Cromwell Chivell, a Coroner for the said State, concerning the death of Kenneth Charles Strangways. I, the said Coroner, do find that Kenneth Charles Strangways, aged 34 years, late of Salvation Army William Booth Hostel, Adelaide, died at the Royal Adelaide Hospital on the 27th day of November, 1997 as a result of aspiration pneumonia following seizure with concomitant global severe anoxic encephalopathy following earlier respiratory and cardiac arrest. I find that the circumstances of death were as follows:- 1. Background 1.1 Kenneth Strangways was born in Port Augusta on 10 September 1963. He was one of six children. Their father was an Arabana man whose people came from the Finke River area. 1.2 said that he was an average student at school in Port Kenneth’s brother Bradley Augusta, and was not regarded as He worked on cattle “retarded” (Exhibit C.12, p2). stations after leaving school. His father died in 1982. 1.3 Bradley said that Kenneth was death in 1992. He affected very badly by his mother’s said that he the He drank even more heavily than before, and the “lost will to live”. family were unable to assist him. He said:- with anyone anywhere and he came to live in Adelaide and hang “He would drink (Exhibit C.12a, p3) around Victoria Square”. 1.4 In 1992, it appears that Mr. Strangways was involved in a car accident, as a result of which he suffered head injuries. He underwent neurosurgery, and a plate was inserted in his head. His brother said:-
CORONERS ACT, 1975 AS AMENDED SOUTH AUSTRALIA FINDING OF INQUEST An Inquest taken on behalf of our Sovereign Lady the Queen at Adelaide in the State of South Australia, on the 10th and 11th days of February, and 13th day of March, 2000, before Wayne Cromwell Chivell, a Coroner for the said State, concerning the death of Kenneth Charles Strangways. I, the said Coroner, do find that Kenneth Charles Strangways, aged 34 years, late of Salvation Army William Booth Hostel, Adelaide, died at the Royal Adelaide Hospital on the 27th day of November, 1997 as a result of aspiration pneumonia following seizure with concomitant global severe anoxic encephalopathy following earlier respiratory and cardiac arrest. I find that the circumstances of death were as follows:- 1. Background 1.1 Kenneth Strangways was born in Port Augusta on 10 September 1963. He was one of six children. Their father was an Arabana man whose people came from the Finke River area. 1.2 Kenneth’s brother Bradley said that he was an average student at school in Port Augusta, and was not regarded as “retarded” (Exhibit C.12, p2). He worked on cattle stations after leaving school. His father died in 1982. 1.3 Bradley said that Kenneth was affected very badly by his mother’s death in 1992. He said that he “lost the will to live”. He drank even more heavily than before, and the family were unable to assist him. He said:- “He would drink with anyone anywhere and he came to live in Adelaide and hang around Victoria Square”. (Exhibit C.12a, p3) 1.4 In 1992, it appears that Mr. Strangways was involved in a car accident, as a result of which he suffered head injuries. He underwent neurosurgery, and a plate was inserted in his head. His brother said:-
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