Senior Sergeant James Hurley is the first police officer in Australian history to face trial over the death in custody of an Aboriginal man, but the law is taking a long slow path to resolving the case. The now notorious case of the death of Mulrunji Domadgee in a Palm Island lockup in 2004 is in the headlines again this week as the third coronial inquest gets underway. In testimony that has surprised everyone, a fellow prisoner at the time and witness to Domadgee’s death, Roy Bramwell, has changed his story …he now says there was a mirror in the cell and he was able to see what happened between Hurley and Doomadgee. Gracelyn Smallwood is Associate Professor at the James Cook University and a long time activist for the Doomadgee family – she says that what Roy Bramwell is saying now is no surprise as it is what he has always told her.
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