Family brace for new chapter decades after teen's death

40-year legal quest reveals police racism in train track case

Don Craigie has spent almost 40 years fighting to prove that racism marred the 1988 investigation into the death of his nephew Mark Haines.

What happened to Mark Haines? Coroner rules out suicide, slams initial investigation

Coroner Harriet Grahame confirms Gomeroi teen Mark Haines' 1988 death was not self-inflicted, Discover why the exact circumstances remain unknown decades on.

Uncle's quest reveals police racism in train track case

After a long campaign by the family of an Aboriginal teenager mysteriously found dead on train tracks, a...

Coroner suggests racism marred investigation of Indigenous teen's death

The mysterious death of Mark Haines, whose body was discovered on railway tracks in northern NSW in 1988, would have been treated differently "if it was a white boy", according to the coroner.

Family brace for new chapter decades after teen's death

Nearly 40 years after an Indigenous teenager was found dead on rural train tracks, a coroner is due to deliver findings after a long and complex inquest.

Racism hindered investigation into death of Mark Haines, NSW Coroner says

An inquest into the 1988 death of a teenager near Tamworth has found that racism likely impacted the investigation. And a warning to our Indigenous viewers, the following story contains the name and image of a deceased person.