rudeboy86
24th May 2010, 04:04 PM
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/1056259/mentally-ill-man-dies-in-custody
Man who crawled from police cell dies
13:46 AEST Mon May 24 2010
A Chinese man has reportedly died the day after being released from police custody in Melbourne, where he is said to have crawled out of his cell "like a dog", bleeding and begging for help.
Jay Jay, not her real name, was called to Dandenong police station on May 12, where she interpreted for a man who was being interviewed through the flap of his cell, after soiling himself.
"When I looked through I saw blood everywhere in the cell and he was on the floor yelling ... he was in pain," she told Fairfax Radio Network, sobbing.
"I heard him yelling out `I can't take this anymore I need to go to the hospital'."
Jay Jay said police then told her the man was okay.
"One officer opened the door and said `get out'," she said.
"I saw him crawling on his knees and hands like a dog."
After signing paperwork at the reception area, his mouth was still bleeding, Jay Jay said.
"He said `I can't move, I can't move,'" she said.
"Two officers came and just grabbed him and threw him out.
"They said he was dying anyway, he was sick."
Jay Jay said outside the police station the man, aged about 50, told her his back and his right hip were causing him pain.
After waiting on the footpath for 40 minutes police organised an ambulance, Jay Jay said.
She said the ambulance arrived just before 9pm - one hour and 15 minutes after Jay Jay arrived at the police station.
The man was taken to hospital where he died the next day.
A police spokeswoman said the homicide squad and Ethical Standards Department were investigating.
Jay Jay said police had taken a video while interviewing the man.
She contacted the radio station after hearing of another death in police custody on Monday.
In a separate incident, a disturbed 23-year-old Meadow Heights man died in custody after being restrained by up to six police officers.
Emergency services were called to the man's home at 2.10am (AEST), after he had burnt his hand in boiling water and was acting irrationally.
After being taken into custody for his own safety, police took the man to the Broadmeadows police station, where he was held to the ground and then sedated by ambulance officers.
He was put in an ambulance, along with two police officers, and was being taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital when his condition deteriorated.
Despite receiving CPR, the man was pronounced dead at the hospital at 4.45am.
The homicide squad and Ethical Standards Department are investigating.
Man who crawled from police cell dies
13:46 AEST Mon May 24 2010
A Chinese man has reportedly died the day after being released from police custody in Melbourne, where he is said to have crawled out of his cell "like a dog", bleeding and begging for help.
Jay Jay, not her real name, was called to Dandenong police station on May 12, where she interpreted for a man who was being interviewed through the flap of his cell, after soiling himself.
"When I looked through I saw blood everywhere in the cell and he was on the floor yelling ... he was in pain," she told Fairfax Radio Network, sobbing.
"I heard him yelling out `I can't take this anymore I need to go to the hospital'."
Jay Jay said police then told her the man was okay.
"One officer opened the door and said `get out'," she said.
"I saw him crawling on his knees and hands like a dog."
After signing paperwork at the reception area, his mouth was still bleeding, Jay Jay said.
"He said `I can't move, I can't move,'" she said.
"Two officers came and just grabbed him and threw him out.
"They said he was dying anyway, he was sick."
Jay Jay said outside the police station the man, aged about 50, told her his back and his right hip were causing him pain.
After waiting on the footpath for 40 minutes police organised an ambulance, Jay Jay said.
She said the ambulance arrived just before 9pm - one hour and 15 minutes after Jay Jay arrived at the police station.
The man was taken to hospital where he died the next day.
A police spokeswoman said the homicide squad and Ethical Standards Department were investigating.
Jay Jay said police had taken a video while interviewing the man.
She contacted the radio station after hearing of another death in police custody on Monday.
In a separate incident, a disturbed 23-year-old Meadow Heights man died in custody after being restrained by up to six police officers.
Emergency services were called to the man's home at 2.10am (AEST), after he had burnt his hand in boiling water and was acting irrationally.
After being taken into custody for his own safety, police took the man to the Broadmeadows police station, where he was held to the ground and then sedated by ambulance officers.
He was put in an ambulance, along with two police officers, and was being taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital when his condition deteriorated.
Despite receiving CPR, the man was pronounced dead at the hospital at 4.45am.
The homicide squad and Ethical Standards Department are investigating.