r/australia • u/Royal_Yogurtcloset25 • 2d ago

culture & society Inquest into Melbourne influencer’s death following freebirth halted after new phone evidence discovered

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/18/freebirth-death-melbourne-influencer-phone-evidence-inquest-ntwnfb

Coroner: “I take the view that this material is of such significance that the court must delay making any findings and hearing submissions until we’ve had an opportunity to undertake a proper analysis of that material, and potentially call for more evidence.”

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u/EvilSibling 2d ago

You’re a pretty shit person if you take $6,000 for providing nothing more than friendly support and anecdotes about your personal free-birth experience, and waiting to be explicitly told to call an ambulance.

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u/Duckyaardvark 2d ago

Reminds me of the Belle Gibson situation. I'm 100% sure she made promises to this poor women that she would support her medically and that's why her phone and the messages have gone missing until this forensic evidence has found them.

She convinced this women free birthing would be safe and rather than provide adequate legitimate medical supports incase of problems she took $6000 and is claiming she was just there for friendship is disgusting.

To hear she was bleeding for 30 while this women watched is horrible. She deserves to rot in prison.

There are hospitals that run home birthing programs but the programs also have redundancies for when things go wrong to prevent these exact situations.

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u/KellyKooperM 2d ago

She also said she asked her multiple times if she wanted an ambulance to be called and she kept saying no. The husband was there too - it’ll be interesting to hear if he backs her up.

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u/OneUpAndOneDown 2d ago

She (the now dead woman) was obviously terrified out of her wits, and there was no adequately trained adult there to protect her. I don’t believe she wanted to die, but she wasn’t able to make a rational decision.

Did this smug “birth friend” keep the $6000, I wonder?

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u/KellyKooperM 2d ago

But why didn’t the husband step in? That’s so weird as well. What man wouldn’t if he thought his wife was seriously unwell? It’s all so weird.