Jetstar pilot committed to trial over murder of secret lover campers
Ex-Jetstar pilot Greg Lynn has been committed to stand trial in the Supreme Court of Victoria over the murders of secret lover campers Russell Hill, 74, and Carol Clay, 73.www.dailymail.co.uk
While Mr Hill's widow tuned into the hearing via videolink, Lynn's flight attendant wife did not.
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No I do not, I am afraid. I seem to recall that police initially did not treat Mr Hill and Ms Clay's disappearance as suspicious, but can't recall when they began to suspect foul play. I also recall that in NSW at least, being told by a police officer there that there was some degree of discretion as to how police proceed, when a person simply disappears, as opposed to an obvious suspicious disappearance - such as the presence of blood stains - which trigger an approach much more in line with a murder or assault. However, I would have thought that the vehicle would have been examined, as a precaution, to see if there were blood stains present, just to rule out the possibility of a suspicious event. It is easy enough to do with these new light sources. It will be interesting to discover why police initially took the view they did. However, the police did say in 2021 that from mid 2020 they suspected non-accidental death at the hands of a third party.
I'm a bit confused by the journalist saying that "Police will resume searching Mount Hotham, where campers Russell Hill and Carol Clay disappeared" and Acting Sergeant Florence's comments that the search would resume around Mt Hotham which is a few miles away. See map.
There is a practice called "discovery", where the Crown is required to reveal to the defence all the information the Crown intends to use in the prosecution and all information recovered, particularly exculpatory information. However, i a committal hearing, which is what has just concluded, the Crown need only provide sufficient information to convince the court that the accused has a case to answer, often called a prima facie case and this information and any other the Crown has, should be more fully ventilated and examined in greater depth in a full hearing. This is the trial. This does not imply guilt. Rather, it is that there is sufficient evidence that the Crown could secure a conviction, in the absence of cross examination by the defence. But that is what happens in a full trial: the defence cross examines the Crown's evidence and had an opportunity to place before the court an alternative version of events, so as to raise a reasonable doubt as to the charges made by the Crown.
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However, I think they had that info way back in the beginning, so expect they already searched as best they could.Might be the phones. Seems that Russell was deceased when his phone pinged at Mount Hotham (in Hotham Heights, which apparently is in the centre of Mount Hotham Ski Resort).
According to police documents submitted to the Melbourne Magistrates' Court, a security camera snapped four pictures of Mr Lynn's Nissan Patrol towing a trailer on Great Alpine Road at 9:48am on March 21, 2020.
A phone belonging to another man, Russell Hill, had connected to a nearby phone tower at Hotham Heights 10 seconds earlier.
While his phone was switched on, police allege Mr Hill was dead.
Detectives say data from Telstra showed Mr Hill's phone to be in the vicinity of the resort cameras 10 seconds after Mr Lynn's car travelled past them.
How detectives zeroed in on the alleged killer of Victorian campers
New details have been revealed in documents provided a committal hearing about why police allege Greg Lynn killed campers Carol Clay and Russell Hill in the Victorian High Country.
