Premier Mark McGowan has partly walked back his controversial comments around the latest Banksia Hill riot and juvenile detainees with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, but insists the disability is “no excuse”.
The 14-hours of chaos over Tuesday night and Wednesday morning embroiled 47 of the 90-odd detainees at the facility, starting with a boy escaping from his cell by removing bricks, threatening an officer with one, then grabbing her keys.
