There are questions about mental health care for those in managed isolation and quarantine following the sentencing of the first person to flee such a facility today.
Suzanne Marie Derrett was showing signs of emotional distress on the night she fled from Auckland's Pullman Hotel - only halfway through her required isolation period.
Today she was denied diversion and handed down a six month suspended sentence.
Our Otago-Southland reporter Timothy Brown was in the Dunedin District Court for today's sentencing, and filed this report.
