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The families of two Indigenous teens killed in the 1980s are hoping the reopening of an inquest into their deaths will bring long-awaited closure, almost 35 years after the girls were found on the side of a NSW road.

NSW state coroner Teresa O'Sullivan has revealed the inquest into the deaths of Mona, a 16-year-old Murrawarri and Kunja girl and Jacinta 'Cindy' Smith, a 15-year-old Wangkumara girl will be reopened, with the hope of revealing what happened to them in 1987.

The two cousins were found dead on the side of a road near Bourke, central New South Wales, nine hours' drive northwest of Sydney.

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Their bodies were located near a smashed ute, alongside a middle aged white man who was uninjured in the crash.

Alexander Ian Grant was found with his arm draped across the bare chest of Cindy, who was almost naked.

Grant was charged with drink driving resulting in Mona and Cindy's deaths but was later acquitted by an all white jury.

He was also charged with interfering with Cindy's body however the charge was withdrawn by the Director of Public Prosecutions.

He has since died.

Cindy's sister, Fiona Smith said the reopening of the inquest finally gives their family hope they will uncover the truth of what happened.

"We've been waiting a long time for this moment," she said.

"We're one step closer to finding out the truth and giving the girls closure.

"It's hard to express the emotions we are feeling. Happiness. Sadness. Love. It's overwhelming. We feel lighter now."

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Sister Kerrie Smith said decades ago, police failed their family, adding had the perpetrator been Indigenous, the outcome of the case would be very different.

She said the reopening of the inquest would finally provide a sense of justice to their family.

"We need to find out what really happened to give us some peace, but the police failed us all the way," Smith said.

"What happened to my sister was unforgivable and no-one has ever been held accountable.

"If a blackfella did that to two white girls, they would have gone to jail."

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Barrister Julie Buxton, who has been assisting with the case said it "highlights the vital importance of the jurisdiction of the Coroners Court to deliver grieving families a sense of justice".

"It is a great privilege to assist the families of Mona and Cindy in their quest for answers," she said.

The National Justice Project has assisted in the push to reopen the original 1988 inquest, which was suspended ahead of the trial of the accused man.

The case was never reopened after his acquittal.

"My heart goes out to the families of Mona and Cindy, who have had to wait 34 years to have their questions answered by a court," director of the National Justice Project, George Newhouse said.

"Whilst the alleged perpetrator may be deceased, it is not too late for accountability, truth and perhaps some closure."

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A Colorado man who had been charged in the presumed death of his missing wife has pleaded guilty to forgery for casting her 2020 election ballot for then-President Donald Trump.

Barry Morphew pleaded guilty on Thursday and was fined and assessed court costs of $600 ($866 AUD), The Denver Post reported.

He avoids jail time as part of a plea agreement.

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Suzanne Morphew was reported missing on Mother's Day in 2020 after she did not return from a bike ride near her home in the Salida area in southern Colorado.

Barry Morphew, who pleaded for help finding his wife, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder and other crimes in 2021, but prosecutors dropped the charges in April.

That decision followed the judge's move to bar prosecutors from presenting most of their key witnesses during Morphew’s scheduled trial because they repeatedly failed to follow rules for turning over evidence in his favour.

The evidence included DNA from an unknown male linked to sexual assault cases in other states, which was found in Suzanne Morphew’s SUV and raised the possibility of another suspect being involved.

Suzanne Morphew's body has not been found.

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In the voter fraud case, investigators said Barry Morphew filled out his missing wife's ballot because he thought Trump could use the extra vote.

Trump lost Colorado to President Joe Biden by 14 percentage points.

“Just because I wanted Trump to win. I just thought, give him another vote. I figured all these other guys are cheating,” he told an FBI agent who confronted him about the ballot in April 2021, according to court documents.

Trump has made repeated claims about fraud and “rigged” election results, but experts say there has been no evidence found of widespread fraud that would have changed the election’s outcome.

Morphew also told the agent he didn't know it was illegal to fill out a ballot on behalf of a spouse.

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A man has been extradited from Thailand and charged over his alleged role in the 2014 murder of a Sydney father in the city's Inner West.

Bradley Dillon, 25, was lured to his death via a text message in 2014 while trying to settle a meagre debt for his sister.

Dillon had been chasing repayment of $2000 his sister had lent to a member of the secretive Saint Michael Fight Club.

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He was stabbed at least four times and shot three times after descending stairs into an underground car park in Leichhardt.

Dillon managed to make it onto Lords Road where he collapsed and died despite the efforts of emergency services to revive him.

Diego Carbone, a former member of the fight club, was jailed in 2018 over the murder of Dillon and remains behind bars.

Police applied and were granted an arrest warrant for 33-year-old Antonio Bagnato, the cousin of Carbone, who had been remanded in prison in Thailand.

Detectives travelled to Thailand to formally extradite Bagnato who has since arrived back in Sydney at 6am on Saturday.

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He was taken to Mascot Police Station where he was charged with an outstanding arrest warrant for murder.

Bagnato will appear at Parramatta Bail Court today.

Detective Superintendent Danny Doherty said Bagnato's extradition to Australia followed years of behind-the-scenes work by police.

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"Bradley was a father who was senselessly murdered, and the simple fact is that if you engage in that sort of violent behaviour, police will always track you down and hold you to account," he said.

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"In my tent, it is basically just a waterbed."

Splendour In The Grass festival goer Kadence Mathers spent the night making sure her tent wasn't going to flood after more rainfall hit the already drenched event.

The music festival is set to continue being mayhem in the mud on Saturday as organisers push ahead despite the weather chaos.

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Mathers said the campsite is "grim" and she and her friends want to leave but their cars are blocked in and bogged.

"Last night it was just a steady stream of rain, and so everything is way more flooded now," she said.

"I've been using socks and stuff to try and mop up the water that is coming in."

"Unless they cancel the entire event we can't get out.

"Even if they do cancel the entire event the car we came in is, like the tyres are almost underwater, it's going to be bogged."

But some blue sky is peeking through at Byron Bay in northern New South Wales providing hope for festival goers that the event will go ahead today.

"It is meant to clear up, so it shouldn't be too bad," a festival goer said.

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On Friday, festival-goers donned ponchos and had to trek through fields that resembled swamps in Byron Bay, only for the first day of the event to be officially washed out.

It wasn't all bad news for day one, with some of the music acts heading to local venues in Byron Bay to perform for disappointed attendees.

Surprise performances from Baker Boy, Confidence Man and Yungblud went ahead at the Beach Hotel on Friday night.

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Organisers had said their decision to cancel Friday's performances on the main stages was due to "a significant weather system" and they had "decided to err on the side of caution".

Work was being done "on repairs", organisers said, adding: "We look forward to Saturday and Sunday programming moving ahead as planned."

The already sodden event ground – where camp fields have become quagmires – is expected to get a top-up on Saturday, though it's unlikely to dampen the spirits of most festival attendees.

Weather set to brighten but mud to remain

The Bureau of Meteorology predicts a 90 per cent chance of rain, between 4 and 6mm, around the North Byron Parklands in Yelgun, although the offshore low bringing the wet weather is moving away from the coast, easing showers over north-east NSW and south-east Queensland.

(See full list of current NSW weather warnings here)

There are also severe weather warnings in place for damaging surf, with "large and powerful surf conditions expected to be hazardous" as the low pressure system lingers offshore.

Weatherzone says "wind should ease from Saturday morning" across the region as the low moves offshore.

The large swell will stick around on Saturday, before easing from Sunday.

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Highs of 18C are forecast for Saturday in the Byron Bay area with overnight temperatures falling to between 9C and 12C before picking back up on Sunday, when the mercury could reach 20C.

Moist onshore winds and showers are on the forecast for the rest of the NSW coast.