News by Perry Duffin Premium Content Subscriber only 'Inexcusable' failures by the NSW Police to properly investigate a missing woman left her grieving family unable to mourn as she lay in a destitute grave under a wrong name for decades, the NSW Coroner has heard. Deputy State Coroner Derek Lee is conducting an investigation into four cases handled by the now-defunct police Missing Persons Unit. The unrelated disappearances of Gary Jones, Lionel Daveson, Christhof Meier and Ursula Barwick took years to resolve because - in at least one instance - there was basically no investigation, the coroner's court heard.
Magistrate Lee, on Monday, drilled down into the case of Ursula Barwick who vanished without a trace after walking out of her father's Central Coast home to find work in Sydney in September 1987.