More than 36 years after the bodies of two Indigenous girls were found on a lonely stretch of ­highway in NSW’s outback, state coroner Teresa O’Sullivan on Tuesday will deliver her findings into the teenagers’ ­horrific deaths.

Nobody has been held accountable for the fatalities, and National Justice Project lawyers acting for the victims’ still-­grieving relatives, said the inquest findings would be “historically ­significant’’.

In a statement, the NJP said the girls’ families hoped the coroner would “reveal the truth of what happened to their beloved children … after years of searching for answers’’.

Ms O’Sullivan’s findings will be handed down in the Bourke Court House – the same court where the man accused of killing Jacinta Rose Smith, 15, and Mona-Lisa Smith, 16, in a devastating road crash, and of molesting Jacinta’s dead body, was acquitted in 1990.

This verdict, from an all-white jury, caused uproar in the remote town.


Aboriginal people are advised that this episode contains the names of people who have died.

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