Blood On The Tracks 05 | The Driver
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ABC Australia
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🗓️ 25 June 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
More than two decades have passed since the coronial inquest into Mark Haines’ death. The family have been forgotten about — until news reporter Allan Clarke arrives in Tamworth on a routine story and becomes convinced this is a major injustice.
Allan’s reporting unearths fresh information. A mother comes forward with a story about her son’s involvement.
Police aren’t quick to follow up. But, after a flurry of protests and phone calls ... the case finally starts to gain traction.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an ABC podcast. |
| 0:05.6 | If you're on an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Island a person, |
| 0:08.7 | we want you to know that this series contains the name of someone who has died. |
| 0:16.6 | The inquest into Mark Hayne's death unearthed a lot of suspicious evidence, but it didn't answer the central questions in this case. |
| 0:25.5 | What happened to Mark Haynes after he left the nightclub with his mates? And how did he end up dead |
| 0:30.7 | on the railway tracks in the early hours of the morning? The case went cold for over two decades and those questions were left hanging. Then I met Fay. He couldn't even kill a rat, but I think he was involved. |
| 0:50.0 | I'm Alan Clark and this is unravel blood on the tracks an investigation into the death of |
| 0:57.1 | Aboriginal teenager Mark Haynes in this episode fresh evidence that Mark wasn't alone at the tracks that night. After Mark's inquest returned an open finding, his family were pretty much forgotten about. |
| 1:21.0 | The police stopped calling and all the unanswered questions ate away at his family. |
| 1:30.0 | We couldn't pick ourselves up from this. |
| 1:32.7 | So I was just blaming myself. |
| 1:35.3 | The DIY investigating by the uncles had failed to find any solid answers. |
| 1:40.6 | They'd stepped on a lot of toes. Uncle Jack remembers fearing for his family. |
| 1:45.0 | People used to drive around coming down our street, |
| 1:49.0 | you know, parked there. |
| 1:51.0 | They was looking for duck. |
| 1:52.0 | We had to sit in the dark while the duck was sitting at the front with a gun. |
| 1:57.0 | It became too much for Jack and his family, and they moved away from Tamworth. |
| 2:02.0 | Yeah, that's it, you know. |
| 2:04.0 | I know if I'm paranoid or not, but you know, |
| 2:07.0 | you make your family, get your family close to you. |
| 2:10.0 | What's happened to Mark, might happen to us. |
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