A grandfather was stripped naked, handcuffed and made to wear a spit hood after suffering a seizure inside Darwin Correctional Centre, a coronial inquest into his death has heard.

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Wayne Hunt was taken off life support at Royal Darwin Hospital in August 2024, days after a successful appeal by prosecutors forced the 56-year-old to serve the remainder of a court sentence in prison.

In January last year, Hunt pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing death in 2022, when his vehicle fatally crushed an 11-year-old boy.

Hunt had been under the influence of cannabis at the time and accidentally hit the accelerator on his RAM 1500 truck, instead of the brake, pinning the child against the wall of a Darwin supermarket.

The inquest

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