The Coroner’s inquest into the death of Jorge Castillo-Riffo on the new Royal Adelaide Hospital site will begin two days after the next state election, InDaily can reveal.
Premier Jay Weatherill has made a stunning intervention in a dispute between SafeWork SA and the grieving families of several construction workers killed on worksites over the past seven years, ordering the agency to release a report into why it failed to hold companies to account over the deaths of their loved ones.
The construction union and the widow of a worker killed on the new Royal Adelaide Hospital site say a series of witnesses have contacted them willing to testify against workplace regulator SafeWork over its handling of the investigation into the death of Jorge Castillo-Riffo in 2014.
Prosecution over the 2014 death of new Royal Adelaide Hospital construction worker Jorge Castillo-Riffo – sensationally abandoned earlier this year – was handed to private lawyers because the Crown Solicitor’s Office could not put the case together quickly enough, InDaily can reveal.