NSW: Dead man believed to be Kirk's murderer
A 20 year-old murder mystery appears to have been solved, with DNA samples linkinga man killed in a car crash last year to the murder of a teenage girl at a New South WalesHunter Valley showground in 1984.
STACEY LEE KIRK, aged 16, disappeared from Sideshow Alley at the Maitland Show in February, 1984.
A coronial inquest was held in 1988 but returned an open finding.
Yesterday, a second inquest heard evidence from Detective Senior Sergeant ALEX POLLOCK,in charge of reinvestigating the killing.
He told the inquest DNA samples taken from the body of IAN RAYMOND SARGENT, killedin a car crash last year, provided investigators with evidence linking him to the murder.
Detective POLLOCK says samples taken from SARGENT, a side-show operator, matched seminalfluid found within STACEY'S body.
Detective POLLOCK has submitted that in the absence of any evidence to implicate anyother person, SARGENT was responsible for STACEY's death.
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KEYWORD: KIRK (NEWCASTLE)
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