media release
DEATHS IN CUSTODY WATCH COMMITTEE (WA) Inc.
Patron: Elder Dr Jack Davis, AO, MBE.
An Invitation to Media & all concerned people…
Deaths In Custody Remembrance: - John Pat Day 1999
When: 11.00am, Tuesday 28 September 1999
Where: Deaths In Custody Memorial
Old Chaplain's House, Old Fremantle Prison
Key Address: Commissioner Colin Dillon
Commissioner Dillon is the ATSIC Commissioner
for Deaths In Custody. He is a retired
Queensland Inspector of Police.
The death of 16 yr old John Pat, who died of closed head
injuries, in a police cell in Roebourne (WA) on the night of 28th
September 1983, was instrumental in bringing about a groundswell
of demand for action to address Aboriginal deaths in custody.
The Royal Commission Into Aboriginal Deaths In Custody
established that John Pat had been assaulted by police in the
police yard following his arrest. He was then placed in an
unconscious or semi-comatose state in a cell and left there until
he was found dead during a cell check. Each year on the
anniversary of his death, we remember all those who have suffered
and died in custody and call on government(s) to implement the
339 recommendations of the Royal Commission.
John Pat Day, in this the year of the republic referendum, calls
us remember the devastating impact of the colonising processes on
First Australians, the people that have gifted this land to our
grandchildren.
John Pat - Lest we forget, NOT best we forget…
Media contact: Kath Mallott, 08 9277-1533 (w) 04-1993-0375(m)
Deaths In Custody Watch Committee (WA) Inc)
119 Mathieson Road, REDCLIFFE, Western Australia, 6104
"The beginning of the cause of deaths in custody does not occur within the
confines of police and prison cells or in the minds of the victims.
Initially it starts in the minds of those who allow it to happen."
Elder Dr. Jack Davis (OA, MBE)
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