A Cry in the Dark mother in death certificate plea

A MOTHER wrongly convicted of murdering her baby who infamously disappeared in the Australian Outback 30 years ago has pleaded for her daughter's death certificate to be changed to state that a dingo was responsible.

Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton published an open letter on her website yesterday - the 30th anniversary of the disappearance of her daughter Azaria while the family camped near Ayers Rock.

"Our family will always remember today as the day truth was dragged in the dirt and trampled upon," she wrote.

The case is one of Australia's most enduring mysteries and became international with the film A Cry In The Dark starring Meryl Streep. .

A coroner found that a dingo had taken the nine-week-old baby but that ruling was overturned and her mother was charged with murder. Chamberlain-Creighton was convicted in 1982 and sentenced to life, but was released after four years when a piece of Azaria's clothing was found, supporting the mother's claim that the baby was taken by a wild dog.