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.
Grieving families have been left in the dark about why SafeWork SA failed to successfully prosecute anyone over the deaths of their loved ones, with Premier Jay Weatherill watering down his “instruction” to the watchdog to release the information.
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.
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.