A lawyer defending a woman accused of hiding six infant bodies in a storage locker in Canada has pointed to Australia’s infamous Azaria Chamberlain case during a court appearance.

Police in Winnipeg made the horrific discovery in a U-Haul storage facility last month after employees noticed a strong odour and saw “squishy bags”.

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The infants’ remains were discovered in kitchen garbage bags, plastic containers and one baby was in a pail, according to authorities.

Andrea Giesbrecht, 40, is charged with six counts of concealing a body.

Her lawyer, Greg Brodsky, told a Winnipeg judge a pathologist of his choosing should observe the autopsies undertaken by the medical examiner’s office.

“People looking at different injuries see different things,” Brodsky, according to Canada’s CBC News, told the court.

“Like in (the) case of (a) dingo that killed a baby. (The) mother was suspected.”

Azaria, an Australian two-month-old, was killed by a dingo while camping near Uluru with her family in 1980.

In one of the most-publicised criminal cases in Australian history, Azaria’s mother Lindy Chamberlain was convicted of killing the baby in 1982.

She was exonerated after a royal commission in 1987.