Former pilot has conviction put aside, retrial ordered over deaths of Carol Clay and Russell Hill

Former pilot Greg Lynn will face a contemporary trial for the homicide of a lacking camper who died alongside her secret lover.

Lynn, 59, confronted a full Court docket of Attraction in Melbourne the place three judges determined his destiny in the present day.

He appealed his homicide conviction and sentence for the demise of camper Carol Clay, 73, who went lacking with Russell Hill, 74, from a distant campsite in March 2020.

The pair had been tenting on the identical web site as Lynn, Buck’s Camp within the Wonnangatta Valley in Victoria’s Excessive Nation.

Lynn was charged with two murders and took the case to trial, admitting he burned their our bodies however sustaining the deaths have been unintentional.

The jury returned a break up verdict in June 2024 and Lynn was sentenced in October of that yr to 32 years’ imprisonment with a minimal of 24.

He was discovered responsible of Clay’s homicide however acquitted over Hill’s demise.

He appealed the decision along with his legal professionals arguing it was unsafe as prosecutors put ahead an unfair case and had didn’t correctly cross-examine Lynn.

Nonetheless, prosecutors rejected all claims the trial was unfair, regardless of admitting cross-examination might have been higher.

The enchantment judges requested prosecutors if they may pursue Lynn on manslaughter expenses for each deaths if he faces a brand new trial.

Prosecutor Kathryn Hamill requested to be given time to debate this with Victoria’s Director of Public Prosecutions and would cross a be aware to the courtroom.

At this time, three enchantment judges returned to the courtroom and allowed his enchantment, ordering that he face a contemporary trial over Clay’s homicide conviction.

The judges discovered there have been quite a lot of “severe irregularities” that gave rise to a “substantial miscarriage of justice” as they put aside the homicide conviction.

Hill’s daughters, Deborah and Colleen, sat in courtroom and appeared emotional as the choice was handed down.

Lynn was remanded in custody and can return to the Supreme Court docket for a instructions listening to on January 28.