It's official - coroner finds a dingo took Lindy Chamberlain's baby daughter Azaria
A DINGO was responsible for the death of Azaria Chamberlain in 1980, a Northern Territory coroner has found.
A Darwin coroner has ruled that Azaria Chamberlain was likely killed by a dingo, bringing a close to a three-decade long mystery.
Coroner Elizabeth Morris told a packed courtroom on Tuesday that a dingo was to blame for the attack at Uluru, which originally saw Azaria's mother Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton jailed for murder and her husband Michael given a suspended sentence for being an accessory after the fact.
Both were later exonerated after a royal commission in 1987.
During the inquest both the counsel assisting the coroner, Rex Wild, QC, and the lawyer representing Azaria's parents, Stuart Tipple, agreed a dingo was the most likely cause of the baby's death.
The finding means Ms Chamberlain-Creighton, as she is known after remarrying, and her ex-husband Michael Chamberlain have finally won recognition that a dingo killed their child.
The inquest was the fourth into the death of Azaria since the nine-week-old child disappeared on a camping trip.
The decision will mean that Azaria's death certificate will be changed.
This would have to be one of the most polarising cases in Australian history, and I don't think this decision will change many peoples minds over what they think happened. Personally I don't think it was a dingo myself, but I'm sure there are people out there who know a lot more about the case than I do as it happened before I was born
