Moses Kellie was ordinarily a quiet and clean man who attended church and had a knack for drawing life-like illustrations. But in his final days, his lips trembled, there was grass in his dreadlocks, his face was greasy and a foul odour followed him…..
He’d stopped showering, eating and leaving his room. He was seen staring into his bathroom cell in Villawood Immigration Detention Centre. It was in that where he was found hanging on January 25, 2019, and pronounced dead shortly after.
These eyewitness accounts were provided by detainees, guards and healthcare staff during hearings of a four-week coronial inquest into the deaths of Kellie and two other detainees – Muhammad Hafizuddin Bin Zaini, 26, and mother-of-two Leah Porter – in Villawood between 2019 and 2022.
The deaths of Moses, Muhammad and a mother of two could still bring change. By Charlotte Grieve, SMH