Justice can sometimes be a long game. For the Wirrpanda family who live in the remote north-east Arnhem Land outstation of Dhuruputjpi, it is now 90 years and counting. This is the story of a police death, a famous miscarriage of justice and a likely murder.
The long-running saga resurfaced last month when the Northern Territory coroner released findings into the 1934 disappearance of Dhäkiyarr Wirrpanda, who was last seen in Darwin a day after the high court ruled to overturn his conviction for the 1933 murder of an NT police constable, Albert McColl, on Guwaŋarripa (Woodah Island) in Blue Mud Bay.
