A Cry in the Dark
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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.
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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.

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Mate, that Barker bloke’s
as cunning as a shithouse rat.

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Beauty, eh?
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2:1 against for a hung jury.
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Shh!
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If ever there was a time when dingoes
were a problem at Ayers Rock,

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it was in August 1980.
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I ask you, and you’ll bear this in mind,
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if your wife had murdered
your chiid in that car,

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what would you have done
over the ensuing months?

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Would you still have the car?
Would it have been thoroughly scrubbed?

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Would the scissors still be left
in the car? Matters such as that.

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If Mrs Lowe heard that cry,
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you may think the only inference you can
draw is that it was Azaria’s last cry.

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That Azaria was still living.
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She was not and could not
have been lying dead in the car.


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