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Jun 21, 2024 | 
theaustralian.com.au | Liam Beatty |Western Australia...
The jury deliberating the double-murder trial of a former Jetstar captain have been sent home for the weekend after the presiding judge issued three reminders. Gregory Stuart Lynn, 57, is facing trial in Victoria’s Supreme Court after pleading not guilty to murdering Russell Hill, 74, and Carol Clay, 73, while on a March 2020 camping trip in the remote High Country.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
theaustralian.com.au | Liam Beatty |Western Australia...
After bashing his partner, a meth-addicted man left to go get pizzas while she lay dying or dead at their home. Robert Evan Rickerby, 30, showed no emotion but was blinking rapidly as he was jailed for 15 years and six months after pleading guilty to the manslaughter of Jessica Geddes, 27, through unlawful and dangerous acts.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
theaustralian.com.au | Liam Beatty |Western Australia...
A former Victorian MP jailed after gambling away more than $173,000 pilfered from the Victorian Electoral Commission has argued in court his jail stint is “excessive”. Lawyers acting for Russell John Northe, 58, appeared in the state’s Court of Appeal on Wednesday afternoon to argue his 21-month sentence had been “infected by a number of errors”. “In our submission, the sentence imposed was not open to the sentencing judge,” barrister Paul Smallwood said.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
theaustralian.com.au | Liam Beatty |Western Australia...
The judge presiding over a former Jetstar captain’s double murder trial has delivered a warning to the jury after they requested to re-watch evidence from two witnesses. Gregory Stuart Lynn, 57, is facing trial after pleading not guilty to murdering Russell Hill, 74, and Carol Clay, 73, while on a camping trip in the remote Alpine National Park.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
theaustralian.com.au | Liam Beatty |Western Australia...
A young man bludgeoned his own grandmother due to the deluded belief she was his abusive stepfather, a court has been told. Hayden Leigh Kidd, 22, appeared in the Supreme Court of Victoria on Tuesday after pleading guilty to manslaughter over the death of Shirley Kidd, 67, two years ago. Kidd’s murder trial was aborted in April after prosecutors accepted an 11th-hour offer to plead to manslaughter.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
theaustralian.com.au | Liam Beatty |Western Australia...
The Federal Court has upheld a previous judgment rejecting legal arguments that would bring Australian ISIS brides and their children home from a refugee camp in Syria. On Tuesday morning, Justice Christopher Horan announced the court would dismiss an appeal on the case. The court is of the view the appeal should be dismissed, I publish our reasons,” he said.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
theaustralian.com.au | Liam Beatty |Western Australia...
A former music teacher jailed after police uncovered depraved child abuse fantasies shared with his boyfriend and three others is seeking to have his sentence slashed, a court has been told. Lawyers acting for Benjamin Heels, 35, appeared in Victoria’s Court of Appeal on Monday to argue his 11-year sentence should be reduced “by years”.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
theaustralian.com.au | Liam Beatty |Western Australia...
Lawyers acting for a former pilot accused of murdering two elderly campers have flagged 17 issues they claim are emblematic of the “completely hopeless” case, a jury has heard. Over two days this week, defence barrister Dermot Dann KC used his final opportunity to address the jury, saying the trial had been marked by a series of “increasingly desperate” manoeuvres by the prosecution.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
theaustralian.com.au | Liam Beatty |Western Australia...
Jurors in the trial of former Jetstar captain Greg Lynn have been asked to retire and deliberate verdicts on two murder charges. Gregory Stuart Lynn, 57, is facing trial after pleading not guilty to murdering Russell Hill, 74, and Carol Clay, 73, while on a camping trip in the remote Alpine National Park. Shortly after 12.30pm, the six men and six women who will decide the case were sent out by Justice Michael Croucher to begin their deliberations.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
theaustralian.com.au | Liam Beatty |Western Australia...
Lawyers acting for the man accused of murdering two elderly campers have argued the whole trial “could have been avoided”. Gregory Stuart Lynn, 57, returned before the Victorian Supreme Court on Wednesday as the fifth week of his double-murder trial enters its final stages. The trial was unable to proceed until after midday, the jury was told, as the court was experiencing a “court-wide problem with the recording technology”.
