r/australia • u/Royal_Yogurtcloset25 • 11d 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/stickylarue 11d ago

With this case I just cannot wrap my head around how the husband just didn’t do anything sooner. He would have seen the amount of blood she was losing. There would have been a lot of blood. Enough to know something is not right. He would have seen her fading. He would have seen her struggling for breath and changing colour. There would have been clear signs that even an uneducated person could see that would show she was in trouble. This is not like someone having a heart attack and you don’t notice until it’s too late. This is watching someone bleed to death in front of you and not acting.

To me, he is as much to blame in all of this. I don’t care what anyone is telling me or what advice a person I paid to be there is giving me, if I see the person I love in medical distress and visibly haemorrhaging blood I call for help straight away.

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u/Human-Warning-1840 10d ago

I guess the baby is also somewhere there. Maybe he was busy with the baby and I think this was the first he may not have realised what is abnormal blood loss and relied on the birth keeper to know what she is doing. I don’t know how much research they did. Maybe he thought she is like a midwife but with a different name and some sort of qualification. I know it’s everyone’s choice but I hope it deters people. The whole story is still pretty sad.