The growl came first, low and throaty, piercing the darkness that had fallen across the remote Australian desert. A baby’s cry followed, then abruptly went silent.

AUSTRALIA has launched a new inquiry into the death of baby Azaria Chamberlain to re-examine claims she was snatched and killed by a dingo at Uluru, or Ayers Rock, in 1980.

Australian authorities are to revisit the 30-year-old dingo baby case after an emotional plea from the woman wrongly convicted of murdering her daughter.

The mother of a baby killed 24 years ago by a wild dog in the Australian Outback said today she bears no grudge toward a man who claims he knew the infant’s fate but did not tell authorities.