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Article: Oz expert warns police of pepper spray dangers

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July 22, 2001
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AN Australian medical expert has attacked New Zealand police for misrepresenting the dangers of pepper spray after a second person died here after being sprayed.

But police acting manager of national operations Paul Brennan rejects any misrepresentation.

Russell Willie Hamilton, 32, who was intellectually disabled, went into a coma minutes after being sprayed and restrained by police on July 11. He died two days later in Waikato Hospital.

In 1999, 66-year-old Northland man Ian Horsfield, who was mentally ill, died of a heart attack after being pepper-sprayed by police.

John Coleridge, an emergency physician at Alfred Hospital in Melbourne who has studied the effects of pepper spray, said ...

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