The United Nations has been asked to investigate the use of restraints on an intellectually disabled Aboriginal man 17 times in the past four years.
Malcolm Morton, 25, was found unfit to plead to a murder charge in 2012 over the stabbing death of his uncle when he was a teenager and has been held in Alice Springs Correctional Centre’s maximum security wing since.
His legal guardian, Patrick McGee, says Morton has been restrained in a chair 17 times since 2012 and has appealed for the the UN to intervene, the ABC reports.