Families of Bowraville murder victims win support for inquiry Ronella "Dolly" Jerome's voice is choked with grief as she talks about her "bubby" nephew, Clinton Speedy-Duroux, who will be forever 16. She wears his birth date around her slim wrist: the "baby boy" whose nappies she changed would have been 39 this year. It is almost 23 years since Clinton was murdered in Bowraville in February 1991, within five months of the disappearance and murder of Colleen Walker-Craig, 16, and Evelyn Greenup, 4, from the same road in the northern NSW town. A white man well known to the close-knit indigenous community, stood trial for the crimes but was acquitted. "We've got evidence," Dolly said at a rally outside state Parliament. We could put this mongrel behind bars. On Thursday, the state government gave some hope to the families fighting for justice for their three children by giving its in principle support for a parliamentary inquiry into the Bowraville murders. It will make a final decision on Tuesday. Police Minister Michael Gallacher said the proposed inquiry was "about giving the family an opportunity to have an audience with not just the government and the Parliament but indeed the entire state." "This is not about a re-investigation of the criminal case, it's not about holding another subsequent murder investigation ... and therefore as such is not a cross-examination of the police case," he said. Greens MP David Shoebridge, who has led the push for the inquiry, said it would not "in any way prejudice further criminal proceedings." The children's families are urging Attorney-General Greg Smith to support a retrial of the man they believe is responsible for the murders, and for the cases to be heard together. The man was tried and acquitted of the murder of Clinton in 1994 and Evelyn in 2006. Colleen's body has never been found. The community believes the first police investigation was botched and crucial evidence showing the similarities between the cases should have been admitted in court. "I guarantee if it was three white kids in the north shore or some other posh place around Sydney, justice would have been served on a silver platter," Clinton's nephew Elijah Duroux said. The children's families asked Mr Smith to apply to the Court of Criminal Appeal for a retrial last year after important evidence emerged that had not been presented at the trials. The state's double jeopardy laws were changed in 2006 to allow a person to be tried again for the same crime if "fresh and compelling evidence" came to light. Mr Smith knocked back the request in February but the government has offered a $250,000 reward for information leading to a conviction for all three murders. ""I stand here today and ask this so-called government to lock this evil man up for the safety of our children,"" said Deakin Walker, Colleen's nephew. Helen Duroux, one of Clinton's aunts, said: "There's a serial killer ... out there who's waiting for his chance to strike, and maybe this time it could be one of your kids. We're all in this together.