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Subscriber only Inexcusable failures by the NSW Police to properly investigate a missing woman left her grieving family unable to mourn as she lay in a destitute grave under a wrong name for decades, the NSW Coroner has heard. Deputy State Coroner Derek Lee is conducting an investigation into four cases handled by the now-defunct police Missing Persons Unit. The unrelated disappearances of Gary Jones, Lionel Daveson, Christhof Meier and Ursula Barwick took years to resolve because - in at least one instance - there was basically no investigation, the coroner s court heard. Magistrate Lee, on Monday, drilled down into the case of Ursula Barwick who vanished without a trace after walking out of her father s Central Coast home to find work in Sydney in September 1987.
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Guards who saw Dimitrios âJimâ Mavris in the hours before he was found dead in his jail cell thought he seemed fine and was even in positive spirits. But an inquest into his 2018 death has revealed the alleged cocaine importer actually spent his final hours openly making arrangements to kill himself, even getting his cellmate to help him, while unsuspecting corrections officers watched TV.
The mechanic turned millionaire property developer and alleged drug importer had been arrested at Sydney airport just 48 hours earlier. Heâd just returned from a wild South American escapade that saw him kidnapped in rural Colombia, where he is thought to have spent a week in captivity before being rescued by local police.
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