Was merely a nurse but this is bugging me also. Rope around the neck would certainly snap the hyoid and cervicals but he'd have to somehow swan dive off a bunk with bed sheets and twist somehow while putting full weight of his over six foot body before hitting the ground? That's some serious physics.
Objectively I can't see this, but since it's written all over the media and don't want to be considered a conspiracy theorist with those nasty Red Flag laws a coming, then I BELIEVE!*cough*
Yep, that’s exactly my reasoning, except I don’t really have a problem with the notion of someone managing to snap their neck from the top bunk with a sheet. Rather than a swan dive I think you’d do something more like a cannonball with your knees tucked against your chest. But that’s neither here nor there because it’s slim chances anyone would do that in the first place, not when there’s the less painful option of simply kneeling until you go under. It’s been my default assumption that he committed suicide with the latter method being how he’d do it. So everything was consistent and making sense to me until the examiner came out with broken “boneS”... because now we’ve got broken cervicals assuming she’s being precise with her words. What’s frustrating is that this seems to argue against both kneeling self-strangulation AND his being manually strangled, since it’s doubtful either of these would break more than the hyoid bone. So it kind of leaves things in an unresolved limbo.