“She always protected everyone and never let anyone go without,” Veronica Nelson’s mother, Aunty Donna, says. “My life’s not the same no more. A mother’s not supposed to bury her child.”
Robinson Gill Lawyers principal lawyer Jeremy King says without an inquest there is no doubt the community and Veronica’s family would never have learned the truth of what happened.
Among the prison population two types of inmates. Those who have been convicted of a crime and serving out their sentences, and those – like Veronica – who are being held on remand for offences and whose cases are yet to be decided in court. More than 200 kilometres north of Melbourne on Yorta Yorta land, Aunty Donna remains isolated by grief in her modest home.Her daughter’s body is now buried 65 kilometres north, an hour’s drive by car, on the banks of the Murray River at Cummeragunja mission.
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