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Police have received new information into the 1995 death of a north-west New South Wales teenager.
The body of 17-year-old Stephen Smith was found on railway tracks between Quirindi and Werris Creek in October 1995.
The Indigenous boy’s death was subject to a coronial inquest, which found Stephen died as a result of multiple injuries sustained when he was hit by a train.
Oxley Police District Crime Manager, Detective Acting Inspector Matthew O’hehir, said the “new information” suggests that Stephen may have been “the victim of a separate, unrelated incident before his body was found on the train tracks some hours later.”
Police are appealing for the publics help in closing the cold case.
