LINDY CHAMBERLAIN ‘I’M DOING THIS FOR AZARIA’

Four decades on from being cleared, she is demanding changes to the system

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Lindy’s voice breaks and her brown eyes well with tears as she recalls the exact moment she knew a jury was going to jail her for murdering her nine-week-old daughter, Azaria.

Heavily pregnant with her fourth child, Kahlia, who would be born just 19 days later, Lindy recalls locking herself in a toilet and praying while the jury deliberated for seven hours.

WORST FEARS

“I went in there and I was praying about it because, obviously, I want to go home to my kids,” she says. “I felt we made a good case... but I just knew I was going to prison.”

Lindy, 78, who rarely gives interviews these days, opened up on SBS program Insight last week about the jury that wrongly found her guilty in 1982 of murdering her newborn daughter Azaria at Uluru.

“You never want somebody else to go through what you have gone through,” explained Lindy, who became an advocate for criminal justice reform after her conviction was cleared three years and four months later.