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Missing five-year-old girl’s body found in Alice Springs · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. A missing five year old Alice
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  Speaker 1: Springs girl has been found dead and police say they
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  Speaker 1: are coming for the man they believe to be her murderer.
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  Speaker 1: The family has requested the child now be referred to
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  Speaker 1: as Kumanji Little Baby, in keeping with Aboriginal tradition. The
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  Speaker 1: girl was the niece of Liberal Senator Jacinta Numpymper Price
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  Speaker 1: and was living in squalid conditions in an Alice Springs
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  Speaker 1: town camp, where her grandfather said she was surrounded by
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  Speaker 1: adults drinking heavily. Northern Territory police are still searching for
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  Speaker 1: forty seven year old Jefferson Lewis, who was released from
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  Speaker 1: prison about a week before the girl vanished early on
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  Speaker 1: Sunday morning. She was reportedly put to bed about eleven
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  Speaker 1: pm and a few hours later was seen holding hands
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  Speaker 1: with Lewis near the Old Timers camp where she was
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  Speaker 1: staying with her mother. The Australians Liam Mendez visited the
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  Speaker 1: camp and spoke with her grandfather, Robin. How do you
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  Speaker 1: feel when you kind of look at this way.
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  Speaker 2: It's hurting. It's a hurt feeling. It's really hurting me
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  Speaker 2: looking at the sight of it. She'd been taken away.
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  Speaker 1: From Northern Territory Police Assistant Commissioner Peter Malley said police
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  Speaker 1: had found clothing items that had both the girl's DNA
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  Speaker 1: and that of Jefferson Lewis. Mali said he was urging
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  Speaker 1: the family of Lewis to bring him into a police station.
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  Speaker 1: Mallie said, I say to Jefferson Lewis that we are
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  Speaker 1: coming for you. The mother of accused double murderer bo
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  Speaker 1: Lamar Condon will spend the next two weeks in custody
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  Speaker 1: after she was charged with one count of doing an
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  Speaker 1: act of intending to pervert the course of justice. Police
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  Speaker 1: alleged Colleen Lamar attempted to influence a key witness to
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  Speaker 1: change their evidence in her son's upcoming trial. Bou Lamar
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  Speaker 1: Condon has been charged with a twenty twenty four murder
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