Indigenous woman’s relatives tell inquest they want to make sure ‘this never happens again’
The family of Birri Gubba woman Shiralee Tilberoo say they want accountability and justice for her death inside aThey spoke on Tuesday outside the coroner’s court, where watch house officers who performed physical checks on Tilberoo in the days before her death repeatedly told an inquest that they “could not recall” their interactions with her, whether she had vomited, or whether she had eaten breakfast.
Standing in the witness box beside an Aboriginal flag and wreath of yellow and red flowers, Aunty Davina Tilberoo and Aunty Kathy Brady remembered their sister as a “loyal” mother of three.“It is impossible to convey the pain and grief of her loss for her three children and grandchildren, sisters and brothers, nephews and nieces, extended family members,” Davina told the court.
“We want to ensure that what Sherry was forced to endure never happens again to anyone’s mother, grandmother, sister or daughter, granddaughter and extended families – that this never happens to any other human being again”. Tilberoo’s death sparked Black Lives Matter protests across Brisbane’s CBD and the suspension of an assistant watch house supervisor.Tilberoo, 49, was in the watch house while suffering from heroin withdrawal and that she had been sick and shaking, as well as vomiting and refusing to eat.
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