WA government apologises for police treatment of murdered baby’s family

State attorney general John Quigley says I am truly sorry' over murder of baby Charlie, who was killed after police left him at crime scene

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The Western Australian government has pardoned and apologised to the Yamatji family of a baby who was brutally murdered by Mervyn Bell after the baby's mother was arrested by police who had been called to assist her in an assault.

After nine years of lobbying by the devastated family and their legal advocates, Tamica Mullaley and her father, Ted Mullaley, were officially pardoned on Wednesday by the WA attorney general, John Quigley. Tamica Mullaley was pardoned for resisting arrest and Ted Mullaley for obstructing arrest, charges they received that day while enduring the unthinkable", Quigley said.