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Watch house officers 'should have done more' on the night Vlasta Wylucki died, inquest told

Vlasta Wylucki, 50, died at Southport Watchhouse in March 2018.  (Supplied)

Staff at a watch house in south-east Queensland failed to properly check on a woman 11 times the night she died in a cell five years ago, an inquest has heard.

A joint coronial inquiry is underway in the Coroners Court in Brisbane into the deaths of Vlasta Wylucki, 50, and Indigenous woman Shiralee Tilberoo, 49, who both died of natural causes while in custody.

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