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Ex-Jetstar pilot to appeal murder conviction, jail term

Greg Lynn has filed appeals against his murder conviction and sentence.

Greg Lynn has filed appeals against his murder conviction and sentence. Photo: AAP

Airline pilot Greg Lynn will appeal against his 32-year jail term for the murder of missing camper Carol Clay.

Lynn filed the appeals against sentence and conviction late on Monday, the Victorian Supreme Court confirmed.

He also lodged an extension of time application.

Lynn, 58, was sentenced to 32 years behind bars for murdering Clay, 73, at a high country campsite in March 2020.

A jury found he shot her in the head and then placed her body – and the body of her lover Russell Hill, 74 – into a trailer before driving them to a remote bush track.

Lynn returned seven months later after Covid-19 lockdowns lifted to burn the couple’s remains into more than 2000 bone fragments.

He admitted burning the bodies but denied the two charges of murder, claiming the two deaths were accidental.

The jury returned split verdicts in June, finding he killed Clay but not Hill.

Soon after the verdicts, Lynn’s barrister Dermot Dann KC flagged his client would appeal the murder conviction.

Dann maintained that position after Justice Michael Croucher sentenced Lynn on October 18.

The appeal against Lynn’s conviction and sentence will be heard in the Victorian Court of Appeal at a later date.

-AAP

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