Murder charges laid over young woman’s disappearance
Allison Bernard went missing more than a decade ago. Photo: AAP/TND
A man has been charged with murder over the disappearance of a 23-year-old woman in a remote Cape York community more than a decade ago.
Allison Bernard was last seen at Archer River Quarry on February 10 in 2013, around 11pm.
She had been at the Exchange Hotel in Coen earlier that evening and was expected to return home to Kowanyama, but never arrived.
A 62-year-old Coen man was charged with murder on Tuesday.
He will appear in the Cairns Magistrates Court on Wednesday.
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– AAP
