Amazing stuff–these cops should be prosecuted.

‘Cops ‘at fault’ in Aboriginal boy’s waterhole death, says Northern Territory coroner
A NORTHERN Territory coroner has slammed police for failing to properly investigate the death of an eight-year-old Aboriginal boy, whose weighed down body was found in a shallow waterhole.
NT Coroner Greg Cavanagh has now referred the case to the Director of Public Prosecutions after finding a crime had been committed.
In handing down his findings today, Mr Cavanagh said investigating police quickly concluded that the death was not suspicious.
“Thereafter, the investigation was given neither the priority, nor the seniority of investigators, that it deserved,” Mr Cavanagh said.
The boy, who cannot be named for cultural reasons, went missing in October 2007 and was found dead two days later in the waterhole just outside the remote Aboriginal community of Borroloola, near the Queensland border in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
When the boy’s body was removed from the deepest part of the waterhole, which was only 75cm deep, large rocks fell from the legs of his shorts (not the pockets).
Police did not seize the rocks, a crime scene was not properly established so that contamination or interference could be excluded, and the waterhole was not drained and examined until ten days later…’
And it just gets worse…

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