Wednesday, October 06, 2004

INDEPENDENCE,DECIDE FOR YOURSELF, EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO CHOOSE.


LINDY Chamberlain-Creighton wants investigators to finally close the file on the death of her baby Azaria after a coroner today ruled out investigating new claims about the mystery by a Melbourne pensioner.In an extraordinary twist to the enduring mystery, 78-year-old Frank Cole claimed in July that he shot a dingo near Uluru in August 1980 and found Azaria's body in its mouth.
The claims sparked a police investigation, but the Northern Territory coroner's office today ruled there were no new facts or evidence that would warrant reopening the case.
"The coroner's office has determined not to reopen the inquest into the death of Azaria Chamberlain," the office said.
"The information provided to it, by Mr Cole through NT Police, did not satisfy the coroner's office that there were new facts or evidence making it necessary or desirable to re-open the inquest."

The 24-year-old mystery remains officially unsolved after Coroner John Lowndes in 1995 delivered an open finding in the third inquest into the death of the nine-week-old baby.
Azaria disappeared from a tent while her family was on a camping holiday on Friday, August 17, 1980.
Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton spent more than three years in jail for the murder of her daughter before she was pardoned and her conviction quashed.
She wants an apology and the coroner to declare definitively that a dingo was responsible for her daughter's death.
Today, she said she had little faith in Mr Cole's story, but hoped the case would finally be closed on the available evidence.
"There is still an open finding," she told ABC radio.
"This does not need to cost the NT government or the territory people any extra money.
"They can use the (information) available and close this case once and for all and do it simply on paper.
"I think it's time that they did the right thing and with a new government up there I'm hoping that something that might happen.
"I don't think I should have to apply for this, I don't think I should have to ask for a public apology. I think it's something that they should be man enough just to simply do."
NT Chief Minister Clare Martin has previously said the government would consider any request for an apology it received.
Ms Chamberlain-Creighton said she had doubts about Mr Cole's story from the beginning, and that he had changed parts of his story a number of times.
"He said (to me) 'Look I can prove what I say is true because I've kept the yellow ribbons out of the matinee jacket'," she said.
"... that was immediately telling to me because there were no ribbons and not even places for them to go, not anywhere on any of the garments let alone on the matinee jacket.
"He gave me a number of other things that he said during that time which just, well they have already changed since."
Ms Chamberlain-Creighton said the family was trying to get on with life, although some of her children were still finding it difficult.
However, a definite finding in the case and an apology from the NT government would help her family move on from the tragedy once and for all, she said.
"I don't think Australia will ever forget the case because it has created too many legal precedents and too many journalistic ones," she said. AAP

NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE IN AUSTRALIA, YOU WILL HAVE FORMED YOUR OWN OPINION ON WHAT OCCURED THAT DAY. I LIKE MANY, HAVE MY OWN OPINION AND I DON'T BELIEVE THE DINGO TOOK IT, I THINK THERE WAS FOUL PLAY INVOLVED.

1 Comments:

Blogger Jennytc said...

I was interested to read your post on the 'dingo baby' case. I didn't know someone had come forward with supposedly new evidence and I couldn't believe it happened way back in 1980. Where do all the years go??? :)

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