Another Aboriginal man killed by police in custody

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Terrance Daniel Briscoe, a 28 year old Anmatyerre Aboriginal man, was arrested for public drunkenness by Alice Springs Police about 9.30pm on January 4. At 6.30 the next morning police informed his family that he was dead.

Police originally told the family that he had fallen over and sustained a head injury before being locked away, and later died of a heart attack. They have since said that he died from ’a lung complication.’

Mr Briscoe’s friends who were arrested with him say they saw five officers bash him.

Mr Briscoe’s family want to know why he was denied urgent medical care after sustaining his injuries.

About four weeks prior to his death in custody, Mr Briscoe had returned to the family home with injuries he claimed had been inflicted by two Alice Springs Police officers. When urged to report the incident he claimed he was afraid of the repercussions.

Mr Briscoe was the nephew of the prominent late Aboriginal Deaths in Custody activist, Letty Scott, who fought a twenty-year battle with the Australian and Northern Territory legal system for justice in the remand death of her husband, Douglas Scott.

Police are currently investigating the Death in Custody on behalf of the Coroner.

Over the weekend, supporters gathered on Stuart Highway north of town, holding signs condemning police brutality and calling for an end to black deaths in custody.

On Sunday evening family members and supporters held a candlelight vigil of a few hundred people opposite the Alice Springs police station.


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