Raymond Ervine, whose birth certificate was found on Mark Haines’ body, says allegations the Gomeroi teenager had been in a stolen car were ‘never his character’

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The morning teenager Mark Haines was found dead on rural train tracks, a hysterical mother pounded on her son’s front door.

The woman was looking for her son Raymond Ervine, whose birth certificate was on Haines when his body was found on train tracks near Tamworth, New South Wales, on the morning of 16 January 1988.

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