The other detainees were prevented from coming to Tanginoa's aid. I couldn't give him a smoke. After Tanginoa came crashing down, the detainees reportedly had to break through a doorway to get to the badly injured man. There was a blood pool. From the nose and ears the blood is pumping.
Nobody can forget that.
I rubbed his hand. They called me to come and help him and feeling his pulse, and I spoke to him very nicely. He passed away in my hands. Following Tanginoa's death, agitated inmates were reportedly rounded up by dozens of police sent into the centre, aided by private riot police working with the prison management, Australian Correctional Management. Suranga Tennakoon said that he, his brother and a Syrian prisoner, who had previously tried to commit suicide with a razor, were locked under special confinement for six days, during which they were fed only one meal and half a cup of water a day.