Teacher inquest cop can't recall 'urgency'

By Luke Costin
Updated June 23 2021 - 1:21pm, first published 1:19pm
Marion Barter's disappearance was reported to police in 1997 but they didn't record her as missing.
Marion Barter's disappearance was reported to police in 1997 but they didn't record her as missing.

The first police report about Marion Barter, a schoolteacher not seen in 24 years, was marked as an "occurrence only" because there was no sense of urgency and no explicit request to file a missing person report, its author assumes.

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