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A NSW coronial inquiry has accepted the evidence of the mother of a teenager who died under strange circumstances in 1987 that Bourke was divided and “racist” during the time.
The inquiry into the deaths of two Bourke cousins in 1987 has found there were ‘serious failings’ by police during the initial investigation – including a failure to take crucial evidence from the girl’s families
36 years ago the bodies of Mona Lisa Smith, 16, a Murrawarri and Kunja girl, and Jacinta Rose “Cindy” Smith, 15, a Wangkumara girl, were found at the site of a car crash 50 kilometres outside of Bourke on December 6 1987…