A prison nurse says his advice on handling a disabled inmate who suffered a seizure was brushed aside by guards who dragged the man to a cell and left him lying naked on the floor.

Wayne Hunt was only days into a sentence for dangerous driving causing death when he had an epileptic fit at Darwin Correctional Centre on August 29, 2024.

The 56-year-old struggled and yelled as prison guards pinned him down, put him in handcuffs and a spit hood then dragged him to an "at-risk cell", the inquest before Coroner Elisabeth Armitage has heard.

He was found unresponsive in the cell the next morning and rushed to hospital where he died two days later.

On Thursday the inquest heard from a prison nurse who initially assessed Mr Hunt as having had an epileptic seizure in a cell, causing him to be co

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