Today the Corruption and Crime Commission's inquiry into the repeated mistreatment of Ngoongar father of five, Kevin Spratt, by Western Australian police and prison transport officers began.
The link to the first hearing transcript plays CCTV footage of his now notorious "reception" at East Perth Lock-up and his "extraction," by half a dozen prison transport officers geared up with face masks and weapons.
WARNING - Some readers may find this footage and the audio very upsetting.
Mr Spratt, naked, unarmed and lying face-down on the corridor floor in the WatchHouse, is seen in the footage to make a number of guttural and gurgling cries while he was tasered, and prays to God - clearly, when he thought/knew death was on the way to take him.
The Lord may well have watched over Kevin Spratt that day as he survived in Royal Perth Hospital from a punctured lung, three broken ribs and repeated tasering. His cause has been taken up by the Shadow Attorney General, John Quigley, a devout Christian and one of those responsible for freeing wrongly-convicted, Andrew Mallard.
If, while reading the transcript, you would like to choose not to see and hear the trauma that Mr Spratt went through, you will need to immediately scroll to the clips at the middle and end of the webpage and hit pause because they will load and start playing without warning. This is the link to the transcript and clip. **UPDATE** CCC has remedied the situation with the footage and so it doesn't load automatically.
###UPDATE### Days 1 - 6 transcripts of the CCC hearings into the tasering and mistreatment of Kevin Spratt can be found here...
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