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Karen Sweeney

Nurse watched movie before prisoner died

A prison nurse watched a film while Indigenous woman Veronica Nelson made repeated calls for help. (AAP)

While Veronica Nelson screamed out in pain and made distressing call after call for help, the only nurse in her Melbourne prison wing was watching a movie.

Veronica died in her cell at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre in January 2020 after more than a dozen requests including for more anti-nausea medication after she vomited up an early dose.

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