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Former airline pilot Greg Lynn has been ordered to face trial for the murders of campers Russell Hill and Carol Clay at a distant campsite in Victoria’s alpine area.
Mr Lynn replied “not responsible” when requested on Wednesday by Justice of the Peace Brett Sonnet how he pleaded to the 2 costs of homicide.
The order that he stand trial follows days of proof about covert recordings, blood spatter evaluation, cellphone knowledge and a secret however doubtlessly explosive police interview.
Mr Lynn was charged in November 2021 with murdering the campers, whose lacking individuals case turned certainly one of Australia’s most high-profile crime tales in March 2020.
It is alleged Mr Lynn, 56, killed the couple on March 20 that yr, whereas they have been all tenting within the distant Wonnangatta space of ​​Victoria’s alpine area.
How he allegedly killed them or what the motive was has not been revealed in a listening to in Melbourne Magistrates Court docket, the place prosecutors and Mr Lynn’s protection staff have examined the proof towards him.
Lead investigator Detective Sergeant Brett Florence was the ultimate witness within the committal listening to on Wednesday afternoon.
He revealed there was at the least one different individual of curiosity when Mr Lynn was first spoken to by the police in mid-2020.
Detective Florence stated officers had issues about Mr Lynn’s psychological well being on the morning of his arrest, at a campsite at Arbuckle Junction within the excessive plains. However he rejected a suggestion by Mr Lynn’s barrister, Dermot Dann KC, that the pilot had been at “psychological breaking level”.
Detective Florence additionally admitted that regardless of these early issues, the police didn’t search a bodily or psychological well being examination of Mr Lynn after his arrest.
Following Mr Lynn’s arrest, he was formally interviewed by Detective Florence and one other officer over 4 days.
Particulars of what was stated throughout that interview, in addition to in a dialog with the police on July 14, 2020 and a proper assertion he made that day have been suppressed after a profitable software by Mr Dann.
He stated the contents of these items of proof could possibly be considered as doubtlessly explosive and argued that they posed an actual and substantial threat of prejudice to the administration of justice.
Among the many particulars aired over a four-day committal listening to have been allegations that Mr Lynn killed Mr Hill and Ms Clay – childhood sweethearts who reunited later in life – someday after 6pm on March 20 at their Bucks Camp campsite.
In a abstract of among the proof, police claimed the circumstances of the couple’s deaths and Mr Lynn’s conduct afterwards have been in line with him having supposed to kill them, or at the least trigger actually critical harm.
It is alleged Mr Lynn contaminated and staged the crime scene – setting fireplace to the pair’s camp to deliberately destroy proof.
He is additionally accused of eradicating proof and disposing of the couple’s stays, involving burning, dispersing and partially burying them at a separate location close to Dargo in Could 2020 and/or November 2020.
Listening units have been put in in Mr Lynn’s Caroline Springs house and automobile, and he was allegedly recorded having conversations with himself concerning the deaths of Mr Hill and Ms Clay.
Mr Lynn was formally charged with homicide on November 25, 2021. The couple’s stays have been situated 4 days later.
He has not utilized for bail and can stay in custody till a instructions listening to within the Victorian Supreme Court docket in March.
– AAP
