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Aboriginal man taken off waiting list for mental health bed a week before prison suicide, inquest told

Mr Garner was on remand after being charged with robbery and possession of a prohibited drug. (AAP: Jono Searle)

A coronial inquest into the death in custody of an Aboriginal man has heard he was taken off a waiting list for a mental health bed at a hospital less than a week before he died in a Sydney jail. 

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article contains an image of a person who has died, used with the permission of their family.

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