An inmate who suffered a seizure was put in handcuffs and a spit hood by prison guards who left him naked in an “at-risk cell” before he died two days later.

At an inquest into his death in Darwin on Monday, Northern Territory corrections and health departments apologised to the family of Wayne Hunt for the way he was treated and told the coroner, Elisabeth Armitage, that procedural changes would be made.

Hunt was only days into a sentence for dangerous driving causing death when the incident occurred at the Darwin correctional centre on 29 August 2024.

He had just turned 56 and was deemed fit enough to serve his sentence.

Mary Chalmers, counsel assisting the coroner, said Mr Hunt’s assessment by health workers and treatment by prison officers would be examined.

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