| BRISBANE: One
Nation leader Pauline Hansen died yesterday whilst in
custody at a Brisbane city police station. Police spokesman
Sgt Dan Nunder stated that the death was not being treated
as suspicious and was quick to point out that it was the
50th such death to occur in Queensland police cells in
the last month.
“Of course
it’s the first that’s not a drunken bloody
Abbo,” he added. Hansen was taken into custody on Friday night after spending an afternoon drinking at a local hotel. Within one hour of being picked up by the police, Hanson was dead. She was found hanging in her cell by a prison sheet, her knees slightly bent, her hands still cuffed and her feet touching the floor. Hanson, the controversial founder of Australia's far-right One Nation party, led the One Nation party to parliament in 1996 - grabbing world headlines after she warned against Asian immigration in her maiden speech. Hansen soon fell from grace, losing her seat in parliament and being jailed for electoral fraud before having the conviction overturned.  Hansen |
| Pauline Hansen found hung in Queensland cell |
Sunday, 01 February 2004 12:00
