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Aaron Bunch

Senior officer when teen harmed breached lawful order

An inquest into the death of a teenager in detention heard of problems at Perth's Casuarina Prison. (Aaron Bunch/AAP PHOTOS)

A senior officer in charge of a troubled youth wing in an adult prison on the night an Indigenous teenager fatally harmed himself had been found to have breached a lawful order but remained on duty.

Cleveland Dodd was found unresponsive in the early hours of October 12, 2023, inside his cell in Unit 18 in Perth's Casuarina Prison, becoming the first juvenile to die in detention in Western Australia.

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