Overview

• Lauren Ingrid Flanigan was found unresponsive in the Crisis Support Unit at Brisbane Women’s Correctional Centre on May 30 and died in hospital on June 1.
• She faced a murder charge after her three-year-old daughter, Sophia Rose, was found with multiple stab wounds in the front yard of their Moore Park Beach home on May 26.
• Queensland Corrective Services has launched an internal review and referred the case to the coroner to assess potential failures in supervising high-risk inmates.
• Sophia’s father, Jai Ruane, and hundreds of residents held vigils to honour her memory and criticised gaps in mental health support and child protection.
• Flanigan’s two other children, aged one and two, were unharmed and placed in alternative care as authorities investigate her mental health history.