A Halifax policemen t-man who arrested a Nova Scotia man who died 30 hours after being jolted with a bewilder gun told a openly enquiry on Tuesday he did not tell on his boy officers the man was mentally ill and had been off his medication for weeks.

Karen Ellet testifies in Halifax on Tuesday at the enquiry into the cessation of her common-law mute, Howard Hyde. (CBC)Const. Giles Gillis was one of two Halifax policemen officers who arrested Howard Hyde on Nov. 21, 2007, for attacking his common-law spouse, Karen Ellet.

Gillis testified that Ellet told him the 45-year-old musician suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and had assaulted her. She also told him he had stopped delightful three types of anti-apprehension and psychosis medications and was delusional, he said.

Gillis admitted he didn't relay those details to other officers who brought Hyde to a apartment at Halifax regional policemen headquarters, then often jolted him with a bewilder gun after he struggled with them.

When asked by the inquiry's cue par, Dan MacRury, why he didn't tell the officers about Hyde's outfit, Gillis replied: "I don't know."

Gillis said he believed the best selection was to have Hyde held in care until a court air, where a umpire could settle on if an assessment was required.

After being tempered with the bewilder gun, Hyde was taken to dispensary for treatment, then sent to the Leading Nova Scotia Correctional Ability in Dartmouth, where guards stunned him with a Taser again. He later died in care at the incarcerate.

MacRury said he believes the whole circumstances could have been avoided.

"My deem is that there was other options, that they could have taken him to the dispensary," he said. "But we'll stoppage and see what they have to say."

Partner tried to tell on jailers of illness

Earlier in the day, Hyde's common-law old lady told the enquiry she called a ambulatory critical time component for help when Hyde became very hostile, at one import hitting her in the phizog with a a awaken.

She said Hyde had been prescribed medication for his sickness, but he had not taken it for weeks.

The court heard a recording of the 911 awaken Ellet made later that tenebrosity, during which she told the smooth that Hyde was "going to become trenchant."

Ellet said she later experienced that Hyde had been arrested, but when she called the correctional mid-point to let them know he was ill, she was told club couldn't help because of concerns over confidentiality.

Ellet described her collaborator as absurd man who loved music and sports, but only when he was on his medication.

The enquiry, ordered by former lawfulness cur Cecil Clarke, is expected to woolly on the circumstances circumjacent Hyde's cessation, including the convey development from policemen headquarters to the incarcerate.

With files from The Canadian Press