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Melbourne private school fined $140k for student’s ‘preventable’ death on overseas trip

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A Melbourne private school has been fined $140,000 after one of its students fell fatally ill on an overseas class trip.
Kilvington Grammar School student Lachlan Cook, 16, suffered diabetes complications during the to Vietnam in September 2019 and later died in hospital in Melbourne.
He had been self-managing his type-1 diabetes when he fell ill and was taken to hospital 24 hours after first showing symptoms.

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