Jetstar pilot Greg Lynn committed to stand trial over the murder of secret ... trends now
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.
Magistrate Brett Sonnet on Wednesday ruled in the Melbourne Magistrates' Court a jury would have sufficient evidence to find beyond reasonable doubt the 56-year old murdered the couple in the Victorian High Country in March 2020.
Lynn's committal to stand trial followed a preliminary hearing that began on January 16.
Greg Lynn, 56, will stand trial in the Supreme Court of Victoria on two counts of murder
Carol Clay (left) was allegedly shot dead by Lynn before Russell Hill (right) was stabbed to death
Police allege Carol Clay was shot while standing toward the rear of this vehicle, which was damaged by fire after the alleged crime
Lynn remained composed throughout the brief hearing, which was held within a a near empty courtroom apart from media representatives.
Dressed in a suit and carrying a bundle of yellow folders, he had stood to address his barrister despite objections from clerk.
At the conclusion of the hearing he formally pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder, setting up what will be an epic murder trial.
Lynn will now front the Supreme Court of Victoria on February 9 in his first step in finally fronting a jury that will decide his fate.
He has been in jail awaiting justice since November 2021 and again made no application to be released on bail.
The jury trial is not expected to formally begin until later this year after mountains of evidence are discussed before a Supreme Court judge.
Much of the conversation is expected to revolve around Lynn's four-day police record of interview, which Lynn hopes to have wiped from the public record.
The contents of that interview are now subject to a court imposed gag order, which is likely to remain in place up until the time of Lynn's trial.
A previous hearing was told Victorian homicide detectives had compiled a whopping 773-page brief of evidence against Lynn.
Many of those pages contain the contents of Lynn's nine-plus hour interview, which was recorded at Sale police station directly after his arrest in November 2021.
Lynn's barrister Dermot Dann, KC has long argued his client's interview should be ruled inadmissible from any murder trial.
Greg Lynn, pictured in court last week, was grilled by police for four days
Police made thousands of recordings of Greg Lynn (right) in the 11 months before his arrest in Victoria's high country. Almost 300 relevant recordings came after the airing of a 60 Minutes special on the missing campers
Lynn's barrister Dermot Dann, KC (pictured last week) plans to fight the admissibility of his client's record of interview with police
While the contents of what exactly was discussed with Lynn cannot be revealed, Mr Dann described it as 'explosive'.
'It's just that these items of evidence are potentially game changing in terms of the way the trial will be conducted by the prosecution,' he told
