Fresh inquest looks into 30-year-old dingo case in Australia
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Sydney - An Australian couple said Friday that a fresh inquest into the disappearance of Azaria Chamberlain should find that a dingo took their 9-week-old baby more than 30 years ago.
The one-day inquest in the far-north city of Darwin was adjourned, with a finding expected at a later date.
Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton and ex-husband Michael Chamberlain were both convicted in 1982 over the disappearance.
Their convictions were quashed six years later when the prosecution's evidence was discredited, but the most recent coroner's report in 1995 returned an open verdict, which they have said fails to exonerate them in the public eye.
The parents of the vanished infant want a new finding that would allow an alteration on the death certificate to state clearly that Azaria was killed by a wild dog.
"It gives me hope this time that Australians will finally be warned and realise that dingoes are a dangerous animal," Chamberlain-Creighton said outside the court.
Her former husband said three young people had been confirmed killed by dingoes since Azaria's disappearance.
"Since the loss of Azaria, I've had an abiding fear and paranoia about safety around dingoes," Chamberlain said. "They send a shudder up my spine. It's a hell I have to endure."
Azaria went missing from her parents' tent at Uluru, formerly called Ayers Rock, in the Northern Territory. Her parents have always insisted that she was taken by a wild dog.//DPA
