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Michael Chamberlain, who fought for years to clear his family's name after his baby daughter Azaria was killed by a dingo, has died at the age of 72.
He died in Gosford hospital on Monday after complications from leukaemia.
The case of Mr Chamberlain and his wife, Lindy, attracted huge attention in Australia.
Prosecutors believed that the couple had killed their daughter. It was years before they were exonerated and the cause of death formally established.
At a trial in 1982, Lindy was found guilty of murdering Azaria and sentenced to life in jail. Michael was convicted as an accessory after the fact - until a chance discovery in 1986 overturned both verdicts.
Speaking in 2012, when the Northern Territory coroner finally ruled that Azaria had been taken by a dingo, Mr Chamberlain said that the battle to get to the legal truth had taken too long.
"However, I am here to tell you that you can get justice even when you think that all is lost," he said.
Actor Sam Neill, who portrayed Michael in the film A Cry in the Dark, said: "Throughout their cruel ordeal and the years of injustice, Michael Chamberlain maintained that quiet unassuming dignity - an impressive man. Rest in peace."
www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-38554255
He died in Gosford hospital on Monday after complications from leukaemia.
The case of Mr Chamberlain and his wife, Lindy, attracted huge attention in Australia.
Prosecutors believed that the couple had killed their daughter. It was years before they were exonerated and the cause of death formally established.
At a trial in 1982, Lindy was found guilty of murdering Azaria and sentenced to life in jail. Michael was convicted as an accessory after the fact - until a chance discovery in 1986 overturned both verdicts.
Speaking in 2012, when the Northern Territory coroner finally ruled that Azaria had been taken by a dingo, Mr Chamberlain said that the battle to get to the legal truth had taken too long.
"However, I am here to tell you that you can get justice even when you think that all is lost," he said.
Actor Sam Neill, who portrayed Michael in the film A Cry in the Dark, said: "Throughout their cruel ordeal and the years of injustice, Michael Chamberlain maintained that quiet unassuming dignity - an impressive man. Rest in peace."
www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-38554255
