The teenager whose treatment in Northern Territory youth detention triggered a royal commission has told the inquiry he was starved by guards, regularly strip-searched and forced to defecate into a pillowcase.
Footage of Dylan Voller being tear-gassed, spit-hooded and shackled to a restraint chair inside the Don Dale Detention Centre shocked the country earlier this year.
At the Commission today the 19-year-old's told of being placed in solitary confinement for up to 23 hours a day.
He also hinted at sleep deprivation tactics by guards who left lights on all night and being denied toilet breaks.
Voller, " There was one instance where I was in an isolation placement at Alice Springs detention centre and I was busting to go to the toilet, I had been asking for at least four or five hours. They'd just been saying no. I ended up having to defecate into a pillow case because they wouldn't let me out to go to the toilet. Eventually when I got let out the next morning, I was able to chuck that pillow case out. There has been other times where I've had to urinate out the door, out the back window, even in just normal rooms because they haven't been able to come down."
