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Lloyd Jones

Family's plea: don't politicise Little Baby's death

A candle-light vigil for Kumanjayi Little Baby will be held in Alice Springs. (Rhett Hammerton/AAP PHOTOS)

The family of an allegedly murdered five-year-old girl has pleaded for leaders to refrain from turning her death into a political debate as police make more arrests over wild riots that broke out after her body was found.

Jefferson Lewis, 47, has been charged with murder and other offences after Kumanjayi Little Baby was found dead in bushland near Alice Springs on Thursday, five days after she went missing.

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