Cathy van Miert

Guest writer

Cathy van Miert is a former registered nurse and medical writer. She is the author of Inexplicable: Coercive Control, Narcissistic Entitlement and the Murders We Call Senseless and writes at cathyvanmiert.substack.com.

Nurse Cathy van Miert will never forget May 15, 2010 (Portrait: Supplied. Composite image: The Spinoff)

I knelt in Jason Palmer’s blood – his death still haunts me 16 years later

Jason Palmer is the only New Zealand corrections officer to die at work. The first nurse on the scene remembers that fateful day and the meaning of Palmer's death.

By Cathy van Miert | 15th September, 2026