Individual accused of Audrey Griffin’s murder discovered deceased within New South Wales prison cell | NSW

The man accused of killing 19-year-old Central Coast woman Audrey Griffin has died in custody, just days after being charged with her murder. A 53-year-old man was found unresponsive in his cell at the Silverwater Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre at about 4:50PM on Thursday, New South Wales police said in a statement. His death is not being treated as suspicious. Police sources confirmed that the deceased man was Adrian Torrens, who was charged on Monday with Griffin’s murder. Griffin, a keen athlete, was found dead in March, her body partially submerged in Erina Creek near a Central Coast highway, after she disappeared on her way home from a night out with friends. Initially, forensic and postmortem examinations of Griffin’s death did not indicate suspicious circumstances, but Superintendent Darryl Jobson said on Tuesday that it was an “unsettling” case and “a matter which has not sat well with us from the start”. A four-week investigation led to the arrest of Torrens last week. Police alleged that Torrens was not known to Griffin, but the pair became involved in a physical altercation after 3AM on 23 March. After

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