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Dingo took Azaria Chamberlain, coroner finds
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June 12, 2012 - 11:00AM
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Azaria Chamberlain, with her mother Lindy.
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.
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Exonerated ... Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton. Photo: Glenn Campbell
During the inquest both the counsel assisting the coroner, Rex Wild, QC, and the lawyer representing Azaria’s parents, Stuart Tipple, agreed a dingo was the most likely cause of the baby’s death.
The finding means Ms Chamberlain-Creighton, as she is known after remarrying, and her ex-husband Michael Chamberlain have finally won recognition that a dingo killed their child.
The inquest was the fourth into the death of Azaria since the nine-week-old child disappeared on a camping trip.
The decision will mean that Azaria’s death certificate will be changed.
In 1988, the Northern Territory Court of Criminal Appeal overturned all convictions against the Chamberlains but a coronial inquest in 1995 delivered an open verdict.
In the final moments of handing down her finding, an emotional Ms Morris apologised to the Chamberlain family.
Ms Morris said she was satisfied the evidence was "adequate, clear, cogent and exact and excluded all other reasons possible".
She told the court: "[Azaria] died at Uluru on 17th August 1980 as a result of being attacked and taken by a dingo."
She told them an amended death certificate was available immediately to them.
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