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Hissyspit

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Tue Jun 12, 2012, 01:09 AM Jun 2012

Dingo Took Azaria Chamberlain, Coroner Finds [View all]

Source: News.com.au

Dingo took Azaria Chamberlain, coroner finds

June 12, 2012 11:02AM

Adelaide Now, 3 hours ago

A Dingo was responsible for the death of Azaria Chamberlain in 1980, a Northern Territory coroner has found.

Coroner Elizabeth Morris told a packed courtroom today that a dingo was to blame for the attack at Uluru, which originally saw Azaria's mother Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton jailed for murder and her husband Michael given a suspended sentence for being an accessory after the fact.

Both were later exonerated after a royal commission in 1987.

A smiling Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, flanked by her son Aidan, told the waiting media outside a Darwin court that Australia was a “dangerous country” and her story had now been vindicated.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/national/dingo-took-azaria-coroner-finds/story-e6frfkvr-1226392715293

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