The Chamberlain case, the legal saga that transfixed the nation, Ken Crispin
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The Chamberlain case, the legal saga that transfixed the nation, Ken Crispin
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eng
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non fiction
Main title
The Chamberlain case
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798103103
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Ken Crispin
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the legal saga that transfixed the nation
Summary
A baby disappears from a tent near Uluru in the sandy desert of central Australia. The Aboriginal trackers say she has been taken by a dingo. But amidst a melange of sinister rumours, suspicion falls on the parents, Lindy and Michael Chamberlain. There are no eyewitnesses, no body, no confession, no motive - and, apparently, credible evidence of their innocence. Yet the mother is convicted of murder; her husband, of concealing her crime. The case captures the public imagination like no other in Australia's history, and virtually divides the nation. Two appeals fail, and Lindy spends more than three years in prison before being released pending a royal commission. The convictions are quashed, but more than three decades pass before there is a finding that little Azaria was actually taken by a dingo. Ken Crispin QC appeared for the Chamberlains at the royal commission
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adult
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