The lengthy struggling household of lifeless camper Russell Hill has been forbidden from going through former Jetstar pilot Greg Lynn in court docket.
In a tragic, last snub, Mr Hill’s spouse Robyn and three daughters have been pressured to sit down silently throughout the Supreme Court docket of Victoria after being denied an opportunity to supply sufferer impression statements.
Lynn was discovered not responsible of murdering Mr Hill, however responsible of killing his secret lover Carol Clay.
On Thursday Ms Clay’s sister Jillian, her daughter Emma Davies and greatest good friend Allison Abbott have been the one individuals to learn aloud sufferer impression statements.
It’s understood Lynn had fought to exclude the Hill household from offering impression statements regardless of arguments they remained victims regardless of the not responsible verdict.
Lynn had claimed throughout his trial that Mr Hill died when he fell on a knife because the pair fought over the weapon.
Lynn spent a lot of the listening to together with his head down studying till it got here time to hearken to the sufferer impression statements, which he appeared to hearken to intently.
He faces life in jail when Justice Michael Croucher returns his verdict at a date but to be mounted.
Former pilot Greg Lynn enters the Supreme Court docket of Victoria on Thursday in chains
Lynn was convicted of murdering Carol Clay (left) however not of Russell Hill (proper). They’d been tenting within the Wonnangatta Valley within the Victorian Alps once they encountered Lynn
In opening the pre-sentence listening to, Crown prosecutor Daniel Porceddu described the homicide of Ms Clay as ‘chilly blooded and callous’.
‘Ms Clay suffered a really violent demise,’ he mentioned.
The court docket heard the aged camper didn’t stand an opportunity in opposition to Lynn, who shot her within the head in an try and cowl up what the prosecution had alleged was the homicide of Mr Hill.
Lynn’s spouse, who was pictured final month nonetheless carrying her wedding ceremony ring, was notably absent from Thursday’s listening to.
She had attended each day of the trial up till his responsible verdict in June.
Seated throughout the physique of the court docket room, the Hill household have been seen sobbing because the sufferer impression statements of Ms Clay’s family members have been learn.
Ms Clay’s daughter Emma Davies was the primary to ship her assertion, refusing to utter Lynn’s title all through her heartbreaking deal with.
Ms Davies mentioned she wouldn’t enable her mom’s legacy to be that of a homicide sufferer.
The court docket heard Ms Clay had been famend for her wizardry within the kitchen, baking up sponges, Christmas truffles and puddings by the dozen.
With a love of all issues tennis and a Christmas tune by beloved Melbourne id Denis Walter, Ms Clay was described because the glue that stored her household collectively.
Ms Davies in contrast what occurred to her mom by the hands of Lynn to that of a ‘horror film’.
Melanie Lynn goes off on a garbage assortment stroll with a self-help guide
Melanie Lynn and her stepson Geordie arrive at court docket for closing arguments within the trial on June 12
‘I can’t be saying the person who murdered my mom’s title, I’ll solely be saying he or him,’ Ms Davies mentioned.
‘He stole my mom from me, he stole my youngsters’s grandmother. He took (mum’s) life, he took her dignity and he took her privateness.’
Ms Davies fought again tears as she described how Lynn cruelly shot her mom within the head and burnt her physique past all recognition.
She described his behaviour as ‘wicked’ and condemned him for the life he destroyed and the lives of these left with the implications of his actions.
Ms Clay’s sister was equally as scathing of the convicted killer, describing Lynn’s actions after the homicide as nothing in need of evil.
‘It was not only a dangerous determination, it was evil,’ she advised Lynn.
The court docket heard prosecutors needed Lynn to be sentenced to life in jail.
Russell Hill’s burnt out camp website after Lynn shot lifeless Carol Clay
Lynn paints over his ‘homicide wagon’ outdoors his Caroline Springs dwelling after murdering Carol Clay
Greg Lynn throughout his police document of interview following his arrest
It was a submission strongly rejected by Lynn’s barrister Dermot Dann, KC.
Mr Dann advised Justice Croucher his consumer maintained his innocence and supposed to attraction his conviction as quickly as potential.
The court docket heard Mr Dann believed the jury had made a mistake in coming to its responsible verdict on Ms Clay.
The skilled barrister described their course of in coming to that conclusion as a ‘forbidden pathway’ that had gone in opposition to Justice Croucher’s personal instructions to them towards the tip of the trial.
Mr Dann mentioned the jury had been directed that Lynn’s solely motive for killing Ms Clay would have been to cover-up the homicide of Mr Hill, which they discovered him not responsible of committing.
‘The prosecution says the jury went down that forbidden pathway to achieve that verdict,’ he mentioned.
The pre-sentence listening to continues.
Lisa Lynn had been residing in worry of Greg Lynn on the time of her suicide
Lisa Lynn was discovered lifeless in October 1999 after consuming a deadly cocktail of booze and sleeping tablets.
Detectives are actually trying to have the Victorian coroner open a second inquest into the mother-of-two’s tragic demise.
Lisa was discovered within the foetal place out the entrance of the household’s dwelling, whereas the couple’s two youngsters, aged one and three, have been asleep inside.
Victorian Coroner Graeme Johnstone mentioned Lisa was believed to have been deeply depressed on the time of her demise.
Nonetheless, the coroner was left with excellent questions over whether or not she had supposed to take her personal life or not.
Lisa’s mom, who would journey from Tasmania to assist her struggling daughter, offered a disturbing assertion to the coroner about Greg Lynn, together with accusations of animal cruelty, violence and ‘weird’ behaviour.
‘Along with not gaining any help from Greg, he would topic her to bodily and psychological abuse frequently,’ she advised the coroner.
‘These occasions occurred too incessantly to recollect, particularly however issues like dropping his mood for no motive and blaming Lisa for something that went flawed.
‘He then would yell and throw issues at her and push her round. I felt very uncomfortable when these occasions occurred as a result of I used to be not inclined to intrude and Lisa would plead with me to not intrude.’
Lisa’s mum advised the court docket Lynn verbally attacked a person within the bar after he made the error of chatting with Lisa.
He then flew right into a ‘rage’ at his then spouse after leaving the resort, she advised the coroner.
‘The one factor that I wish to add is that so far as I am involved, Greg is accountable for my daughter’s demise by psychological torture inflicted by him,’ Lisa’s mum advised the court docket.
