Coroner finds racism hindered 1988 police probe into Indigenous teen's death

Mark Haines, a 17-year-old Gomeroi teenager, died in 1988 under suspicious circumstances; his parents died without learning the truth, and his family endured decades of uncertainty.

Nearly four decades after a Gomeroi teenager was found dead on train tracks outside Tamworth, a NSW deputy coroner has ruled that racism and negligent police work corrupted the original investigation into Mark Haines' 1988 death, overturning a suicide finding that his family never accepted. The ruling places this case within a longer, painful story of how institutional indifference to Indigenous lives can foreclose justice before it begins. The coroner has referred the matter to the unsolved homicide unit, and a million-dollar reward remains — small gestures toward a reckoning that came too la

Coroner finds racism hindered 1988 police probe into Indigenous teen's death

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