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Detectives investigating the disappearance of Melbourne campers Russell Hill and Carol Clay interviewed their suspected killer practically 18 months earlier than he was arrested.
Two Victoria Cops spoke to airline pilot Greg Lynn for about an hour at his Caroline Springs kitchen bench in July 2020 about his actions when the campers disappeared three months earlier.
The couple disappeared whereas tenting within the distant Wonnangatta Valley on March 20, 2020. It is alleged Lynn, who has pleaded not responsible to 2 homicide fees, killed them that day.
Mr Hill’s automobile was discovered beside their burnt-out campsite on March 27 and their our bodies have been found in distant bushland close to Dargo, within the Victorian alpine area, days after Lynn’s arrest in November 2021.
Lynn is going through a committal listening to in Melbourne Magistrates Court docket, the place the proof towards him is being examined.
Detective Senior Constable Abbey Justin was one of many officers who interviewed Lynn, then a witness, in July 2020.
She informed the courtroom Lynn’s automobile was one in all a dozen picked up by automated quantity plate recognition cameras on the Hotham Alpine Resort between 9.40am and 10am on March 21, 2020.
Cellphone knowledge had positioned Mr Hill’s telephone within the space on the time, prompting officers to evaluate footage.
Det Justin mentioned the 11 different vehicles picked up by the digicam had additionally been captured on two quantity plate recognition cameras on the opposite aspect of the alpine resort and eradicated in consequence.
She mentioned she and Detective Brett Florence had gone to Lynn’s home to search out out the actions of his car that day.
“We had the automobile going by ANPR. We wanted to substantiate who was driving,” she mentioned on Tuesday.
Det Justin additionally took a photograph of Lynn’s automobile at house. She believed it was the identical car though it was a distinct coloration.
She mentioned the photographs confirmed it had been a darkish coloration – navy or gray.
A beige Nissan Patrol was seized by police when Lynn was arrested and charged with homicide in November 2021.
On Monday a witness described seeing a “grumpy” Russell Hill driving alongside a slender observe to a campsite, trying like a person with a spot to be.
Weed sprayer Robert Williams had stepped off to the aspect of the observe, able to have a dialog with the motive force of the white LandCruiser, as he had with others passing him on March 20.
However the “grumpy previous bugger in his 70s put his foot down, (and) zoomed previous” with out even waving.
He acknowledged Mr Hill days later when information studies got here out that he and Ms Clay have been lacking within the space he had seen them.
He described watching a drone for 35 or 40 minutes later that day because it circled over him and rudely hovered over campsites.
“You are taking place there to have a peaceable camp and any individual’s flying a drone over prime of you,” he mentioned.
The listening to is constant.
– AAP
