It was the dingo cobber...

It's now official; Azaria Chamberlain was killed by a dingo; the Sydney Morning Herald reports:

A dingo was responsible for the death of Azaria Chamberlain in 1980, a Northern Territory coroner has found.

Coroner Elizabeth Morris told a packed courtroom today that a dingo was to blame for the attack at Uluru, which originally saw Azaria's mother Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton jailed for murder and her husband Michael given a suspended sentence for being an accessory after the fact.

Both were later exonerated after a royal commission in 1987.

During the inquest both the counsel assisting the coroner, Rex Wild, QC, and the lawyer representing Azaria’s parents, Stuart Tipple, agreed a dingo was the most likely cause of the baby’s death.

The finding means Ms Chamberlain-Creighton, as she is known after remarrying, and her ex-husband Michael Chamberlain have finally won recognition that a dingo killed their child.

The inquest was the fourth into the death of Azaria since the nine-week-old child disappeared on a camping trip.

The decision will mean that Azaria’s death certificate will be changed.

There will be some of our readers who are too young to remember the Chamberlain case, but it hogged the headlines for months in the early 1980's. It was a case that polarised public opinion, and one can only imagine how the debate would have been had the internet been available to the masses back in those days.

But 32 years on Azaria's parents have finally received the verdict that they fought so many years for. May they now find peace.