Miranda Downes


Miranda Downes was an Australian screenwriter. Ernest Arthur Knibb was convicted of her murder.
Miranda attended Cumberland High School. She was awarded a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New South Wales. Subsequently, she completed a course in "script writing" at the National Institute for Dramatic Arts.
She worked as a production secretary in the film industry when she wrote an original script, Undercover. She later started working on a script called Cane about Italian cane cutters in Queensland, when she was murdered on a beach north of Cairns. Ernest Knibb was arrested after an investigation by the TV show 60 Minutes.
Cane became the mini series Fields of Fire.

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