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Aaron Bunch

Coroner warns top official to be 'truthful' at hearing

The death of Indigenous teen Cleveland Dodd sparked an outpouring of community grief. (Aaron Bunch/AAP PHOTOS)

A coroner overseeing an inquest into the first juvenile to die in West Australian custody has cautioned a top bureaucrat about misleading the court, as the justice department agrees to handover more evidence.

Cleveland Dodd was found unresponsive inside a cell in the trouble-plagued youth wing of a high-security adult prison in the early hours of October 12, 2023.

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