40-year legal quest reveals police racism in train track case
A coroner found on Thursday that racism influenced the 1988 police investigation into the death of Mark Haines, a 17-year-old found dead on train tracks in Tamworth. Don Craigie, Haines' uncle, asserted that if the victim were white, the investigation would have been more thorough. The case will be re-examined by the unsolved homicide.
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Published 18 Jun 2026, 11:04 UTC · Updated 18 Jun 2026, 11:10 UTC
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