Dhakiyarr Wirrpanda’s family in calls for fresh probe into mystery disappearance

Description

When Dhakiyarr Wirrpanda disappeared in 1934 after being cleared of the murder of an NT police officer and spared the hangman’s noose, many suspected the slain officer’s colleagues had finished the job.

Almost a century later, his descendants are asking the NT government to finally make amends for the historic injustice.

Subject

Expert comment on the case of Dhakiyarr Wirrpanda, a Yolngu man who walked free from Darwin’s Fannie Bay Gaol on November 9, 1934, and was never seen again. It is very likely he was murdered by police and should be seen as a death in custody.