Confronting footage of a disabled inmate being roughly handled and placed in a spit hood by prison guards after an epileptic seizure has been played at an inquest into his death.

Wayne Hunt struggled and yelled as Northern Territory corrections officers pinned him down, held him tightly by the head and put him in handcuffs and a spit hood, the inquest before coroner Elisabeth Armitage has heard.

Hunt was not given a full medical assessment after his seizure, but put in an “at-risk” cell for observation, with prison officers believing he may have ingested illicit drugs, the inquest heard on Wednesday.

The 56-year-old, who lost a leg in a 2008 motorbike accident, was only days into a sentence for dangerous driving causing death when he had an epileptic fit at the Darwin correctional centr

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