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Mrs Chamberlain, the reason
you cut your childs throat was...
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The most important allegation.
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And it was never put.
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It was never put because Mr Barker,
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one of the best men in the business,
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just cannot think of any reason
why she would do it.
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No doubt the ordinary crocodile would
have gone out of its way to eat this baby.
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But our experience as Australians tells us
the dingo does not bear such a reputation.
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Now, what is this dingo
supposed to have done?
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It managed, if her story is true,
to kill the baby in the bassinet,
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drag it from the basket, shake her head
vigorously at the entrance to the tent,
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then carry her off in such a way
that left virtually no clues in the tent
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in the way of blood or hairs
or anything else.
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It left no blood or drag marks
at the entrance to the tent.
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It was able to pass by
the childs mother, in full view,
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without disclosing or revealing
it was carrying a baby.
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It managed to kill the child,
with the jump suit all buttoned up.
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If you accept Professor Cameron, it buried
the body, having undone one top button.
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So, all in all, ladies and gentlemen,
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it was not only a dextrous dingo,
it was a very tidy dingo.
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(laughter)
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There is some common ground between
Mr Phillips and the prosecution.
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That is that this is
a case of simple alternatives.
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Either a dingo killed that child
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or she was murdered.
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A dingo or murder.
1:34:43
Mr Barker shifted the onus of proof
from the prosecution to the defence
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by shifting the emphasis from the almost
incomprehensible forensic evidence,
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claiming it was a case
of simple alternatives.
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He also claimed the matinee jacket
was a fabrication by Lindy Chamberlain.