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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Susan Chenery

Searching for Marion Barter: a daughter’s 25-year quest to find her missing mother

Portrait of Sally Leydon
For 25 years Sally Leydon, pictured, has been investigating what happened to her mother Marion Barter, last seen on 22 June 1997. Photograph: David Maurice Smith/Oculi

The stooped old man shuffled laboriously along the corridor of Ballina local court on his walker, muttering under his breath. In these court rooms, he had taken the stand, a picture of a befuddled, grandfatherly man with shaking hands and a fading memory.

As a key witness Ric Blum was under interrogation by the sharp and precise Adam Casselden SC, assisting the coroner, Teresa O’Sullivan.

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