A murder charge against an elderly Queensland woman accused of killing her autistic son more than 50 years ago has been dropped after she passed away.
of her son Peter, the fourth of her 11 children.
His parents Maureen and Michael Enright didn’t report him missing when he disappeared in 1968 or 1969 aged three or four, a court had heard. An eight-day search in October 2020 of the family home and its surrounds – including digging up the yard and using ground-penetrating radar – did not find the boy’s remains.The family had been living at the property since 1966.
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