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A coroner is critical of Department of Corrections staff for failing to answer calls for help the day an inmate was found dead in his cell.
After an inquiry into his death, coroner Katherine Greig has determined Anh Tuan Nguyen died by suicide at Auckland's Mount Eden Corrections Facility (MECF) in 2017.
Greig said, on 14 September, the morning he was found dead, his cellmate repeatedly rang the cell intercom, but corrections staff took almost 90 minutes to answer.
The coroner's reports said the cellmate's first call at 6.18am was activated at MECF's Master Control, which controlled the prison alarm cell system at that time.
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