DEATH INQUEST OF DAPHNEY ARMSTRONG.

Form 17

QUEENSLAND

CORONER’S ACT 1958 – 1962

(Section 29 (4), (5)

S U M M O N S T O W I T N E S S .

QUEENSLAND}

TO WIT }

DEATH INQUEST

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to attend an inquest before me

on 25 February, 1993

at 10.00 am,

at Court 20, Brisbane Coroner’s Court, Floor 11, 179 North Quay Brisbane

AND at the times and places to which the inquest is adjourned

from time to time until you are released by a coroner from

further attendance – and then and there to give evidence and

be examined concerning – the death of

Daphne ARMSTRONG on the 25th May, 1992.

AND also bring and produce then and there at the inquest the

following books, documents, writings, and other things:- of

such of them as are in your custody or control: namely (INFORMATION)

CORONER G M Casey (signed)

BRISBANE

15 January 1993

TO: MIRON LOVRIC

OATH OF SERVICE BY POSTING

I,

of

do swear that the within Summons to Witness was served on the

within named Witness by so posting a true copy of such Summons

to Witness to the Witness at his address last known to me.

Date of Posting: 19 March 1993

Place of Posting:

Address of Witness: 2:PM

Signed and sworn before me

at

on

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(Deponent) (Justice of the Peace)

O A T H O F P E R S O N A L S E R V I C E

I,

of

do swear that the within Summons to Witness was served on the

within named Witness be delivering a copy of it to him

personally, and at the same time showing him the original summons.

Date Served:

Address Served:

Signed and Sworn before me

at

on

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(Deponent) (Justice of the Peace)

Dear Mrs Warner, thank you for the previous letter to start the search for who I thought

was my son. He is not my son. I have the facts on Daphney Armstrong’s

death . You may have seen the news report in the Southern News this

morning which is a lot of lies. I rang up the editorial and gave them

the facts as I am giving you now. I hope to force them to retract that

lying story. Daphney wasn’t arrested from Woolloongabba because she was

nowhere near the Gabba. She was not arrested for being drunk in public

either like Channel ten had it on Tuesday evening. She was arrested by

West End police on Monday between 11 – 11:30 am for being unlawfully on

private property. They removed her from under the house. It is 22

O’connell St, West End where she was arrested from. She did not have

Anywhere to live because she refused to pay rent, so nobody would give

Her accommodation. She slept under houses, in doorways, in the park,

On the river front etc. Everybody knew Daphne. She did not have an

epileptic fit either but a bad heart which was diagnosed approximately

a year ago when she gave up on life. On occasions when she camped under

the house, she would steal the toilet paper from all the toilets and

anything that she could carry in her two bags with her personal

possessions. In general, she always drank metholated spirits, but if

she couldn’t get that, she drank what she could get. She was discovered

under the house on Monday morning conscious but unable to walk all

covered in fecies. Three different tenants tri9ed to move her but she

was a dead weight. A former boyfriend of hers who is a white man

lives in her old flat in 22. He sometimes encouraged her around at

night for drinking sessions while he supplied the metho, they would

then procreate and she would leave. She was evicted several years

ago because she was a month out of rent, she lost her key and

brought some Aborigines around who smashed the door in to let her in.

That was $200.00 damages. With back rent plus gas and electricity

she owed approximately $700.00 and the story that she spread around

about losing $200.00 bond is lies because there is no bond on these

flats, only when they move in, they must pay three weeks rent like on

Housing Commission apartments. She was one person that everybody gave

up on because she wouldn’t help herself. The police from West End

arrested her, they carried her out one on each arm. She was taken to

the City Watch house but that night, a detective came with a message

that she passed away in the back of the peddy wagon while being

transferred to hospital. She made a mass in her cell with fecies and

spewed all over the floor being violently ill before they decided to

transfer her to hospital. Next morning, Tuesday, the detective who

came on Monday night came to get a statement of Kevin who was the

boyfriend and who incidentally brought the police to move her. They

took a statement from him and besides telling us that the autopsy

would be done that day, it was it. I ranf channel 9 and gave this

same story just as the reporter who investigated her death came in

from the mortuary from Royal Brisbane Hospital. He told me that the

autopsy was finished and it showed that she died from a bad heart.

Channel 9 did not run the report but Channel 10 did. I don’t see

why they should make such a fuss about her when she was already on

her way out. These are the true facts into the circumstances of the

death of Daphney Armstrong.