NSW: Childs' fingers not severed, contrary to reports - inquest

AAP General News (Australia)
12-03-2007
NSW: Childs' fingers not severed, contrary to reports - inquest

SYDNEY, Dec 3 AAP - The inquest into the death of Sydney car saleswoman Rachelle Childs
has been told her fingers were not severed, contrary to some reports.

The body of the 23-year-old was exhumed for further testing last year, after some witnesses
at the inquest said they had heard one of her hands was severed.

But Deputy State Coroner Jane Culver was today told tests revealed damage to her left
hand was consistent with burning.

She also was told all of Ms Child's fingers were intact and there was no evidence of any cutting.

Ms Childs was last seen alive at the Bargo Hotel in Sydney's south-west on the evening
of June 7, 2001.

Her charred partially-clad body was found in roadside bushland near Gerroa on the NSW
south coast in the early hours of June 8.

The inquest is continuing.

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KEYWORD: CHILDS FINGERS

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