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Robert Paul LONG
 
 
 

 

Robert Paul Long

 

 

Childers is 190 miles from Brisbane.

 

 

The gutted Palace Backpackers at Childers. The hostel was destroyed
and 15 people died in a fire in June 2000.

 

 

Survivors gathered outside the hostel.

 

 

The smouldering front of the backpackers' hostel in Childers.

 

 

Police began searching the ruins at first light.

 

 

Exit routes from the hostel were not clear, say survivors.

 

 

15 backpackers are thought to have died in the fire.

 

 

The tragic scene of the Childers Backpackers’ hostel fire, which astonishingly,
the front door surround survived.

 

 

The interior of the Palace hostel in Childers, Australia, following the fire in 2000
in which 15 backpackers lost their lives. Photograph: AP

 

 

A memorial will be built where the hostel once stood.

 

 

Princess Anne met British survivors of the fire.

 

 

Detective Inspector Graham Rynders with the man they want.

 

 

Long was shot after lunging at a policeman with a knife.

 

 

Robert Paul Long after his arrest for the Childers fire.

 

 

Robert Long: Impassive in the dock.

 

 

Victims

 

Sarah Williams and Natalie Morris (right) died in the blaze.

 

 

Flown home: Natalie Morris

 

 

Blaze victim: Sarah Williams

 

 

Gary Sutton (left) and Mike Lewis were travelling together.

 

 
 
 
 
 
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