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Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services

Inquest in the death of Roger Whisselle announced


    TORONTO, May 18 /CNW/ - Dr. Andrew McCallum, Regional Supervising Coroner
for Eastern Ontario, today announced that an inquest will be held in the death
of Roger Whisselle.
    Mr. Whisselle, 39, died January 30, 2004, while an inpatient in a
psychiatric unit at the Hospital Montfort. He died after receiving medication
to treat his disorder. The inquest will examine issues of medication use and
surveillance.
    The inquest is expected to last five days and will hear from fifteen
witnesses.
    The inquest will begin at 9 a.m. on September 6, 2005, at the Canadian
Human Rights Tribunal, 160 Elgin Street, 11th Floor, Suite A-100, Hearing Room
No. 2, Ottawa. Dr. Benoit Bechard will preside as inquest coroner. Crown
counsel will be assigned in the near future.

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For further information: Dr. Andrew McCallum, Regional Supervising 
Coroner for Eastern Ontario, Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional 
Services, (613) 239-1251

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