Nathan Reynolds died after asthma attack in prison due to ‘delayed’ response of staff, inquest finds

An Aboriginal man died on his cell floor because there was a “confused, unreasonably delayed, and uncoordinated” medical response by prison staff, a coronial inquest has found.

Warning: This story contains an image of an Indigenous person who has died.

Deputy state coroner Elizabeth Ryan handed down her findings on Thursday into the death of Anaiwan and Dunghutti man Nathan Reynolds.

The 36-year-old died on the concrete floor in his prison cell at John Moroney Correctional Facility in Berkshire Park on September 1, 2018, from bronchial asthma — one week before he was expected to be released.

Ms Ryan said on the night of Mr Reynolds’s death he required emergency treatment but the response he received “fell well short…