The Supreme Courtroom trial of a former pilot, accused of murdering campers Carol Clay and Russell Hill within the distant Victorian Alps, has been mounted.
Gregory Lynn appeared in courtroom on Thursday for a pre-trial listening to to set down a timetable for the case regardless of his lawyer Dermot Dann KC saying points surrounding Mr Lynn’s authorized funding had “intensified”.
“We’re not able to guarantee the courtroom that the cash’s in place,” he mentioned.
“Each avenue was and is being pursued. I feel by October we’ll know a method or one other.
“Apart from that I’m ready to proceed.”
Mr Lynn has pleaded not responsible to 2 counts of homicide, alleged to have occurred in Victoria’s excessive nation in March 2020.
He was arrested greater than a 12 months and a half later, in November 2021, following an in depth police investigation.
Police allege Mr Lynn was concerned in a lethal combat with the high-school sweethearts on the distant campground within the Wonnangatta Valley, later disposing of their our bodies in bushland.
Ms Clay, 73, and Russell Hill, 74, disappeared a day after arriving on the campsite on March 19, with the invention of the burnt stays of their tent and belongings sparking an in depth search.
Partial stays allegedly linked to the pair had been found greater than 20 months later inside the Alpine Nationwide Park.
Mr Dann instructed the courtroom that even when authorized funding remained a problem, he was ready for the trial to be listed, as his consumer was “anxious” for the trial to proceed.
“The very last thing he needs is to upset that timetable,” he mentioned.
Judicial registrar Tim Freeman set the trial down to start on February 13 subsequent 12 months, estimated to run for as much as six weeks.
The courtroom was instructed Mr Lynn would subsequent return earlier than the Supreme Courtroom in October as “very important” pre-trial points had been litigated between the events.
