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Coroner urges against psychiatric patients sharing rooms following 2014 manslaughter
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Lindon Luke Sekrst pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
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South Australia s deputy coroner has recommended against dual occupancy rooms in psychiatric wards at public hospitals after one patient killed another while sharing a room at Noarlunga Hospital six years ago.
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They were sharing a room at the Noarlunga Hospital s Morier Ward
The coroner says psychiatric patients should not share rooms
Stephen John Barton was killed by room-mate Lindon Luke Sekrst in August 2014.
Deputy coroner Anthony Schapel said that, given the practice of dually accommodating patients , there was a certain inevitability in such an incident occurring at some point in time.