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| Bowraville murders: NSW police commissioner applies for retrial | |
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| A man acquitted of murdering two of three Aboriginal children who went missing 26 years ago could face court again, with the NSW police commissioner making an application for a retrial. | A man acquitted of murdering two of three Aboriginal children who went missing 26 years ago could face court again, with the NSW police commissioner making an application for a retrial. |
| The children – four-year-old Evelyn Greenup and 16-year-olds Colleen Walker and Clinton Speedy-Duroux – disappeared from Bowraville on the NSW mid-north coast within five months during 1990-1991. | The children – four-year-old Evelyn Greenup and 16-year-olds Colleen Walker and Clinton Speedy-Duroux – disappeared from Bowraville on the NSW mid-north coast within five months during 1990-1991. |
| In separate trials local man Jay Hart was found not guilty of murdering Clinton and Evelyn, whose bodies were found in bushland on the outskirts of town, but the commissioner, Andrew Scipione, has sent a submission calling for Hart’s retrial to the attorney-general, a police spokeswoman confirmed on Tuesday. | In separate trials local man Jay Hart was found not guilty of murdering Clinton and Evelyn, whose bodies were found in bushland on the outskirts of town, but the commissioner, Andrew Scipione, has sent a submission calling for Hart’s retrial to the attorney-general, a police spokeswoman confirmed on Tuesday. |
| The application comes after a five-part podcast made by the Australian on the murders, which were described as Australia’s “least-known serial killings”. | The application comes after a five-part podcast made by the Australian on the murders, which were described as Australia’s “least-known serial killings”. |
| In the second episode, Gary Jubelin – the detective who has led the investigation since 1996 – said the family had been let down by the justice system and everything that surrounded it: police, the courts and the media. | In the second episode, Gary Jubelin – the detective who has led the investigation since 1996 – said the family had been let down by the justice system and everything that surrounded it: police, the courts and the media. |
| “One thing I found unique about this investigation, and I have been doing homicide for a long time and I get the sense of things that attract the public’s attention, is here we have three kids murdered living in the same street and I am absolutely gobsmacked by the amount of people that have never heard of it,” Jubelin said. | “One thing I found unique about this investigation, and I have been doing homicide for a long time and I get the sense of things that attract the public’s attention, is here we have three kids murdered living in the same street and I am absolutely gobsmacked by the amount of people that have never heard of it,” Jubelin said. |