When police and paramedics drove up a steep track through the rainforest foothills of the Border Ranges and found a dead man in a temple being prayed over while his feet were being massaged, they struggled to understand it.
The long wait for answers to what occurred on the night of 16 October 2021 was extended this week when the New South Wales state coroner suspended an inquest into the death of Jarrad Antonovich in Byron Bay – more than a year after it first sat and on what was supposed to be its final day of testimony.
