A youth justice advocate has told the Royal Commission into the Northern Territory's juvenile justice system that the indigenous teenager at the centre of the inquiry was set up to fail.
The Royal Commission heard strongly-felt opinions as to why Mr Voller got the point where he was tear-gassed and shackled to a restraint chair whilst wearing a spit hood in custody earlier this year.
Antoinette Carroll is the co-ordinator of the Youth Justice Advocacy Project at the Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service.
She worked with Dylan Voller for seven years.
Voller has a long criminal history.
The 19-year-old has been in and out of youth detention since he was 11 years old.
But Ms Carroll has told the Royal Commission Voller is not naturally a violent person.
She also said education would, and should, have been a key preventative measure for Voller.
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