Dingo snatch witness refuses to talk to police

An elderly man is refusing to talk to police about his sensational confession that he knew that a wild dog had stolen a baby from an Outback camp 24 years ago, in one of Australia’s most mysterious deaths.

Don Cole, 78, from Melbourne, sparked a furore three weeks ago when he told a Sunday newspaper that he shot a wild dog, known as a dingo, near the Ayers Rock tourist camp on the night that nine-week-old Azaria Chamberlain went missing from a tent. The dog still had the baby’s dead body in its jaws, he said.