The Vanuatu Coroner says the Government needs to rein in the police paramilitary unit, the Vanuatu Mobile Force.

This comes after an inquest into the death of a prisoner while in VMF custody.

John Bule, a convicted rapist, had escaped and been at large for a month before being recaptured by the VMF. He was fit and healthy but after a VMF interrogation he was hospitalised with multiple injuries and died later the day he was recaptured.

Many will be sad to hear that Bernard Narakobi died yesterday, Tuesday 9 March, 2010.

Bernard Narakobi was a Papua New Guinean lawyer, politician, philosopher, and the author of several widely read books. Over his life he served as MP for Wewak, Speaker of Parliament and in later years, as the High Commissioner to New Zealand.

Narkobi made immense contributions to the forging of the new state of Papua New Guinea particularly in these roles, and as Chairman of the Law Reform Commission.