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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
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Blake Foden

'Flawed' investigation criticised as lawyer urges open finding in teen death inquest

Charli Powell, who died at Freebody Oval in Queanbeyan in February 2019. Picture: Supplied

A lawyer representing the mother of a Queanbeyan teenager has urged a coroner to return an open finding about the manner of the 17-year-old girl's death, in part because of a "flawed" police investigation.

Solicitor Michael Bartlett criticised the probe into Charli Powell's death, telling the NSW Coroner's Court on Thursday that Queanbeyan police rushed into declaring it a suicide.

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