Snowtown ‘bodies-in-the-barrels’ accomplice Mark Ray Haydon due for release in May

SA government seeks legal advice on whether new laws criminalising concealing or interfering with human remains could keep inmate in jail

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A man imprisoned for his involvement in the Snowtown murders, one of Australia's most notorious crimes, could be free within months.

Mark Ray Haydon was convicted for his role in the so-called bodies in the barrels" murders in Snowtown, South Australia, in the 1990s. Eight of the 11 people killed were found in barrels in a disused bank vault in the town, which is 150km north of Adelaide. A 12th death was linked to the killers.

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