WA: Police charge man over deaths of children

AAP General News (Australia)
04-24-2005
WA: Police charge man over deaths of children

PERTH, April 24 AAP - A 36-year-old man has been charged over the deaths of two young
children found in a cemetery in Western Australia's far north.

Police say the bodies of a four-year-old girl and her 14-month-old brother have been
found in the Derby cemetery.

Acting Deputy Police Commissioner Murray Lampard has told ABC radio that police worked
frantically to try and revive the children.

He says police discovered the bodies after the estranged partner of the children's
mother directed them to an isolated spot.

The man has been charged with three counts of causing grievous bodily harm.

Police allege he seriously assaulted his de facto wife before turning on the children.

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KEYWORD: CHILDREN

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