Kumanjayi Walker spent long stretches in troubled Don Dale detention centre, inquest hears

The inquest was told Kumanjayi Walker spent time at the Don Dale detention centre during the scope of a royal commission into the treatment of young people detained at the facility. Photograph: Isabella Moore/The Guardian

Kumanjayi Walker spent long stretches of time in the notorious Don Dale detention centre, the coronial inquest into the police shooting death of the 19-year-old has heard.

The three-month-long inquest is examining the events surrounding his death on 9 November 2019 in the remote Northern Territory community of Yuendumu, after he was shot three times by police officer Const Zachery Rolfe during an attempted arrest.