Dingo baby mother ‘bears no grudge’

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

Melbourne pensioner Don Cole, 87, sparked a furore this week by telling a Sunday newspaper he shot a wild dog, known as a dingo, near Ayers Rock on the night Azaria Chamberlain went missing in August 1980. The dog still had the baby’s bloodied body in its jaws.

If his claim is true, his failure to tell police about his grisly discovery paved the way for one of Australia’s most notorious miscarriages of justice.