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'Not me': best friend denies role in train track death

A friend of Mark Haines was rumoured to be linked to the Indigenous teenager's death soon after his body was found on train tracks, an inquest has been told.

AAP · Mar 31, 2025

Morning Mail: Gina Rinehart’s Maga message, Trump ‘pissed off’ with Putin, daunting search for quake survivors

What drives Australia’s richest person?; Trump takes tougher tone with Russian leader; rescuers scour collapsed buildings in Myanmar and Thailand

The Guardian - AU · Mar 30, 2025

'We didn't do it': man denies rumours over teen's death

A man has rejected "fanciful" rumours that he and his brother were involved in the death of teenager Mark Haines, whose body was found on train tracks in 1988.

AAP · Oct 29, 2024

Relief as inquest announced 35 years after teen's death

The family of Mark Haines, an Indigenous teenager found dead on train tracks near Tamworth, hope a new inquest will bring them justice.

AAP · Feb 17, 2023

Mark Haines' family confident of fresh inquest into Tamworth death

Gomeroi teenager Mark Haines was found dead eight kilometres south of Tamworth in 1988, and no investigation has yet determined why or how he died.

ABC News · Jan 16, 2023

Teen's family wants inquest 35 years on

The family of Mark Anthony Haines, who was found dead on train tracks near Tamworth, NSW, is calling for a new inquest into his death.

AAP · Jan 15, 2023