‘Very sorry for your suffering’: Greg Lynn apologises at murder trial for actions after campers’ deaths

Former Jetstar pilot describes struggle that led to deaths of Russell Hill and Carol Clay, after pleading not guilty to murder

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A former Jetstar pilot accused of killing two elderly campers in the Victorian high country has apologised to their families for the suffering that I caused" and testified that he did not murder them.

Gregory Stuart Lynn, 57, has taken the stand in the Victorian supreme court on Thursday, after pleading not guilty to murdering Russell Hill, 74, and Carol Clay, 73, at a remote camping site in the Wonnangatta Valley in March 2020.

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