ALMOST six years after Tasmanian Aboriginal teenager Codie Mansell died, findings of an inquest have been published, further devastating his family.

Tasmanian coroner Olivia McTaggart found the seventeen-year-old’s death was preventable.

She attributed a number of factors, including a series of miscommunications by Ambulance Tasmania and Tasmanian Police, and a flawed ambulance safety ‘alerts’ system, recommending immediate procedural changes.

Codie, an aspiring country singer, passed away at his family home, less than six kilometres from the state’s main hospital…