Nurse's Confession in Organ Donation Case

0:00It's April 15th. I'm Corey with The Story, and this is Sydney News today, local news powered by AI. A coroner's court in Victoria is digging into a shocking confession from a nurse at Royal Melbourne Hospital back on January 16, 2021. 49-year-old Matthew Hamill from Strathbogey had his life support turned off. The nurse admitted covering his mouth and nose for about a minute and a half right after worried his organs wouldn't be viable for donation, otherwise. Hamill first went to Wongarata Hospital late 2020 with cold symptoms, headache, dizziness, and nausea but got sent home. Next morning, his family found him unresponsive and he got airlifted to Royal Melbourne with severe brain damage from a meningitis induced stroke. The nurse, alone in the room, said she acted to help the family's donation wish, kissing him goodbye first. She got arrested in November 2023 after spilling this to police years later. Things were successfully donated afterward. A forensic pathologist ruled his death natural from meningitis, inflamed blood vessels, and

1:03sinusitis but couldn't rule out the nurse's role completely. Council laid out three possibilities. Her actions caused it. The disease alone did, or it's unclear. Corn or Catherine Fitzgerald offered condoances to Hamill's family and held off on judgment for now, leaving big questions about end of life care and organ protocols hanging in the air.