Katherine Tuck views any further involvement in inquiry as an ‘arid exercise’, lawyer says
player Shane Tuck has told a coroner she will no longer take part in the inquest into her husband’s death, citing “grave concerns” about the scope of the inquiry and its ability to deliver “a just outcome”.
Katherine Tuck’s lawyer Greg Griffin wrote to the Victorian coroner’s court on Wednesday to notify it of Tuck’s immediate withdrawal from any involvement in the investigation, saying she considered “further involvement in the matter to be an arid exercise”.Shane Tuck, who played 173 games for Richmond between 2004 and 2013, killed himself in July 2020 aged 38.
The scope was later adjusted and reduced, and McGregor recused himself after submissions from the AFL requesting he do so due to him being the brother of a staff member of the AFL Players’ Association, which had referred Shane Tuck to mental health services. John Cain took carriage of the investigation.Katherine Tuck flagged in 2021 that she was considering whether she should withdraw from the inquest due to its narrowed scope.
Cain said at the time that he was “far more interested in what the current state of play is in relation to the management of concussion and head knocks in the AFL and boxing” and that it was not his role to “apportion blame as to what has occurred”.Coronial inquests are intended to establish the facts of a death but the coroner is also able to make recommendations for the prevention of similar deaths based on the evidence presented.
Katherine Tuck was “frustrated by the coroner’s decision to severely limit the scope of the investigation”, Griffin said in his letter to the coroner this week.
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