One of Australia’s oldest cold cases: why after 90 years a family is still waiting for justice | Tom Murray
The recent Northern Territory coronial findings into the 1934 disappearance of Dhäkiyarr Wirrpanda open old wounds
Justice can sometimes be a long game. For the Wirrpanda family who live in the remote North-East Arnhem Land outstation of Dhuruputjpi, it is now 90 years and counting. This is the story of a police death, a famous miscarriage of justice and a likely murder.
The long-running saga resurfaced recently when the Northern Territory coroner released findings into the 1934 disappearance of Dhäkiyarr Wirrpanda who was last seen in Darwin a day after the high court ruled to overturn his conviction for the murder of Northern Territory police constable Albert McColl on Guwaŋarripa (Woodah Island) in Blue Mud Bay, North-East Arnhem Land in 1933.
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