THE man acquitted of bashing a two-year-old Mildura girl to death almost a decade ago has been charged following the discovery of a woman's body at Cobram this week.

John Torney walked free after a 2016 Supreme Court jury found him not guilty of both murder and an alternate charge of manslaughter after the body of toddler Nikki Francis-Coslovich was found in the roof cavity of her Oram Court home...