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Call for inquest over historic death

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Pam Whitford says she has been living a lie for almost 41 years.

That lie, she claims, is that her husband Geoff Whitford took his own life at a rocky cove on Myponga Beach in October 1981.

Mr Whitford, who was in charge of a covert police taskforce which targeted high level drug trafficking, was found shot dead on the beach.

He had previously served as Mt Barker’s first detective in the...


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