The spouse of former Jetstar pilot Greg Lynn had no thought what she was capturing when she snapped a photograph of him portray his 4WD.
Melanie Lynn was not unaccustomed to seeing her husband paint over his beloved Nissan Patrol with bizarre home paint.
Lynn, 57, has pleaded not responsible within the Supreme Court docket of Victoria to the murders of Russell Hill, 74, and Carol Clay, 73, within the Wonnangatta Valley, in Victoria’s Alpine area, on March 20, 2020.
A picture proven to the jury captured Lynn utilizing an bizarre curler to color over his automobile in June 2020 – simply months after police allege he murdered the campers.
Police had seen the automobile had been painted in July that 12 months after they made first contact with the pilot.
Lynn’s automobile had been captured on CCTV cameras positioned within the mountains on the time of the alleged murders.
However again then, his automobile had been painted in a definite darkish blue or gray color.
Greg Lynn used a curler to color his automobile after allegedly murdering two campers
In an interview video proven to the jury, Lynn informed detectives after his arrest in November 2021: ‘Effectively, she’s seen me paint it many instances earlier than.’
Lynn mentioned he used Dulux Steel Protect to carry out the paint job, utilizing a ‘sandbank’ color he had beforehand purchased for the intention of portray his Jayco Hawk campervan.
‘So, you already know, “Oh, right here he goes once more, he is portray his automobile”,’ Lynn informed police.
‘If the neighbours noticed it, “right here he goes once more, he is portray his automobile”. Which may appear odd, however as I defined, it is only a software.’
Lynn informed police his automobile had 466,000km on the clock and he had spared no expense in making certain it ran nicely.
‘And it really comes up with fairly an inexpensive look whenever you paint it with a pleasant curler, a superb high quality curler, it would not look too dangerous from a distance,’ Lynn boasted.
On the time, Lynn had been stood down from his job as a pilot as a result of first of many Covid lockdowns.
‘I did not go and purchase paint, I simply seemed round within the storage,’ he informed police.
‘So I believed “that’ll do” – it was lockdown, no revenue, stood down, the automobile wanted to be painted, suited that plan, and so I painted that.
‘And look, it is – the automobile, to me, most individuals would think about a automobile to be one thing of status, however for me it is simply one other software like another software within the storage, like a hammer or a chainsaw. It simply must be useful.’
Greg Lynn claimed his spouse targeted on the Covid lockdowns whereas he painted the automobile
Melanie Lynn took a photograph of her husband portray his automobile. She has attended his trial on a regular basis
Lynn’s automobile had been a darkish gray or blue when he allegedly dedicated the murders
Lynn informed police his spouse had been preoccupied with Victoria’s first lockdown when he returned from his fateful journey into the wilderness.
‘After I got here again from that one, the entire world was simply falling aside. Yeah. That was on Sunday,’ he informed police.
‘I would spoken to her on the Saturday, and he or she informed me, “Greg, the entire nation goes into lockdown, that is absolute pandemonium,” and I mentioned, “I may inform one thing was up, ‘explanation for all of the automobiles simply driving each which method”.’
Lynn informed police his spouse was extra anxious about acquiring fundamental provides within the Covid lockdown than what he had been as much as out within the bush.
‘And she or he mentioned, “You may’t purchase bathroom paper, you possibly can’t purchase cleansing stuff ‘trigger the shops are simply empty”,’ Lynn mentioned.
‘After I arrived, she took me to the fridge, and he or she had up there a Covid plan that she’d taken from the paper, and spent the entire afternoon telling me what I missed the previous week because the world was – world was unravelling.
‘In order that was how that day was spent – she did not ask something about my journey.’
Little did Ms Lynn know her husband had simply disposed of two our bodies after he claims he change into embroiled in a lethal scuffle with Mr Hill.
Lynn’s report of interview was proven to the jury over two days this week.
It concluded with Lynn declaring the campers had died because of a tragic accident.
‘I am harmless of homicide. I have never behaved nicely, I’ve made some poor choices. However homicide, as I perceive it, I am harmless of,’ he informed detectives after being formally charged with two counts of homicide.
Lynn had additionally taken this rifle with him on the lethal tenting journey into the mountains
The 12-gauge shotgun Lynn says Mr Hill stole from him after which unintentionally killed Carol Clay with
The jury heard Lynn had been free to return to the unique website the place he dumped the our bodies of his alleged victims regardless of being questioned by police in July 2020.
In November that 12 months, Lynn mentioned he torched the our bodies utilizing abilities he had learnt whereas working overseas.
‘The human physique’s 90 per cent water, that was all gone, and the fireplace was largely self-sustaining, which I used to be fairly shocked by,’ he mentioned.
‘I have been to India and Nepal many, many instances, I have been to the temples there, they’ve the crematoriums, and I’ve seen them cremating folks proper in entrance of me.’
In contrast to these crematoriums, which Lynn claimed used two-tonne of wooden, he solely had to make use of about 20kg and two litres of kerosene to incinerate his alleged victims.
‘I’ve no cause to misinform you now, it is only a – it was a self-sustaining hearth that burnt from that high down, and on the finish of it there was – I needed to poke round somewhat bit in direction of the tip to place all of it collectively,’ Lynn mentioned.
‘And I did add just a few sticks alongside the way in which, however there was – there was nothing on the finish. Nothing greater than 20 millimetres lengthy.’
Detectives wouldn’t put monitoring units in Lynn’s automobile till weeks later.
The trial continues.
