Blood On The Tracks 04 | Whitewash
Unravel
ABC Australia
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🗓️ 18 June 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The family's hopes for an answer at the inquest fade fast.
Nine months after Mark’s death, an inquest is held. The family are hopeful it will give them answers, but the police won’t budge from their theory that he put himself on the tracks.
As the hearing unfolds, the family find out just how mediocre the initial investigation was. Lost evidence, an unsecured crime scene ... and a forensic pathologist who ignores a key injury, medical evidence that could provide clues to how Mark died.
One person is in the family’s corner though. The railway worker who found Mark on the tracks is adamant the police and the forensic pathologist have it wrong. He’s remained silent for the last thirty years but finally comes forward to set the record straight.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an ABC podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | If you're an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person, we want you to know that this series contains the name of someone who has died. |
| 0:17.0 | Today's a big day for me. I'm on my way to meet one of the few eyewitnesses that actually saw Mark's body on the tracks the morning he was found. |
| 0:25.6 | And at the inquest into Mark Hayne's death in 1988, this man's evidence was crucial. |
| 0:32.6 | We've heard about him in previous episodes. His name is Glenn Bryant and back then he was the assistant station master at West Hamworth. |
| 0:41.3 | Hi Glenn, how I'm. Hi Alan. How are you? |
| 0:44.3 | I'm good. I found you. |
| 0:46.3 | You did find me, yes. |
| 0:47.3 | Nice to meet you. |
| 0:48.3 | It's a long way out. |
| 0:49.3 | Come on here. |
| 0:50.3 | Come on here. |
| 0:51.3 | I'm Alan Clark and this is Unravel. Our season one's story is Blood on the Tracks, |
| 0:57.0 | an investigation into the death of Aboriginal teen Mark Haynes. |
| 1:01.0 | And if this is your first time listening, |
| 1:04.0 | I recommend going back and starting at episode one. |
| 1:18.8 | Nine months after Mark died, a public hearing was held to explore the cause and circumstances of his death. |
| 1:20.7 | In this episode, we'll unpack that inquest through the eyes of an unlikely ally that Mark's |
| 1:26.1 | family found at the local Tamworth courthouse. |
| 1:41.0 | I want to speak to Glenn about what he saw that morning and what he said in court. |
| 1:46.1 | It's taken him years to agree to speak publicly. |
| 1:52.5 | Glenn Bryant is 67 years old, clean-shaven with the voice of a Packaday smoker. |
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