Outback town ‘so violent it should be shut down’
The outback community in SA’s far north where nurse Gayle Woodford was brutally murdered is so violent it should be closed down, a retired GP has told an inquest into her death.
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Culture of violence and fear in Outback town
Remote Fregon was, to one of its medical staff, “the most violent place she had ever worked”. Monday’s inquest into the murder of Gayle Woodford revealed the extent of threats that the nurses were exposed to.
He killed a nurse – why wasn’t he being monitored?
A man’s escalating sexual violence against women culminated in the rape and murder of Gayle Woodford – but a “catalogue” of errors left him unmonitored, an inquest has heard.
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