Indigenous prisoner complained of severe migraines before dying in custody in Perth

Exclusive: Dannielle Lowe, 41, told partner of being in ‘agony’ in weeks before her death on Christmas Eve

A First Nations woman who died in custody on Christmas Eve had complained of severe migraines in the weeks before she was taken to hospital, her partner says.

Dannielle Lowe, a West Australian woman, died in hospital after experiencing an unspecified medical episode at the Wandoo rehabilitation prison at Murdoch in Perth’s south on 21 December. She was 41.

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