By Daisy Hudson of
The death of killer Dunedin doctor Venod Skantha has forced a review of how courts communicate with prisons.
Convicted murderer Venod Skantha died at Otago Corrections Facility this week.
Photo: Otago Daily Times / Stephen Jaquiery
Questions have been raised as to how Otago Corrections Facility staff were not aware a Court of Appeal decision rejecting Skantha s appeal bid had been released on Wednesday.
Skantha, who was convicted of murdering Dunedin teenager Amber-Rose Rush in 2018, is believed to taken his own life at the prison near Milton in South Otago just hours after learning of the decision to uphold his conviction.