Former Jetstar pilot Greg Lynn has complained in court docket about being pelted with faeces and ‘bodily fluids’ in jail amid claims he’s being spied on by different inmates.
Lynn, 59, is charged with the homicide of Carol Clay, 73, who went lacking from a distant campsite in Victoria’s northeast in March 2020, alongside her good friend Russell Hill, 74.
Making use of for bail within the Supreme Court of Victoria on Thursday, Lynn instructed the court docket a fellow prisoner hurled a bottle of faeces and bodily fluids at him whereas he was in protecting custody.
He instructed the court docket that after his arrest he was taken to Melbourne Evaluation Jail and locked down in its solitary confinement unit for 14 days due to COVID quarantine.
After that he was allowed out for one hour a day right into a small caged yard.
Lynn stated he requested workers why he had been put within the unit and whether or not he might go into the mainstream jail inhabitants.
He stated they instructed him it might not be protected due to his public profile, and that prisoners would search notoriety by attacking him.
Lynn stated he spent six weeks in solitary earlier than being regularly launched to a 12-cell safety unit, the place he was out of his cell from about 8am to 4.30pm.
Greg Lynn makes his method into court docket on Thursday in Melbourne
He described the unit as no greater than the courtroom, with as much as a dozen inmates in ‘very intense’ residing situations.
Lynn stated the assault occurred after he had completed giving proof at his first trial.
He instructed the court docket he was alone consuming dinner within the unit’s yard when one other prisoner got here to the door with an empty milk bottle stuffed with faeces and different bodily fluids and threw it at him.
Lynn instructed the court docket he reported the assault to the entrance desk immediately, naming the person accountable.
‘He’d ready this clearly nicely upfront,’ Lynn stated of the prisoner.
‘He had an empty milk bottle, which he’d stuffed with faeces and different disgusting materials, bodily fluids, and he threw that at me … It was a disgusting assault.’
Lynn named each inmates and jail workers whereas giving proof from the witness field.
Lynn stated he was locked down within the jail’s solitary unit for per week afterwards, regardless that he was ‘the sufferer within the assault’.
Lynn’s spouse Melanie, a part-time flight attendant, enters court docket on Thursday alongside her stepson Geordie
He was then returned to his safety unit.
Lynn instructed the court docket a second incident occurred on July 5 this 12 months on the Metropolitan Remand Centre, the place he has been held since October 2024.
He stated stress in his unit had constructed ‘over many months’ as extra prisoners arrived whom he believed had been informants.
‘They’d clearly lie about their very own mom for a sentence low cost,’ he stated.
Lynn instructed the court docket he had refused to share a holding cell with two prisoners he believed had been informants.
When he returned to the unit, he stated one among them confronted him on a balcony.
‘He was able to explode. He was like Vesuvius,’ Lynn stated.
He stated the person made threats mentioning ‘s*** bombs’, stated he had ‘killed earlier than and he’d kill once more’, and instructed Lynn to ‘consider my household’s security’.
Lynn’s barrister Dermot Dann KC (proper) enters court docket on Thursday
Lynn’s spouse Melanie, a part-time flight attendant, had been current in court docket alongside her stepson Geordie, whom she arrived with hand-in-hand.
Lynn stated he requested a jail officer to have the 2 males separated.
Later that afternoon, as he went out to the yard, the person was standing by a meal trolley.
Lynn stated the person instructed him: ‘So lagging doesn’t work anymore.’
He stated he replied: ‘That’s attention-grabbing coming from an informant.’
‘And he stated, “Who’s an informant?” And I stated, “You’re”. And he stated, “Who am I informing?” And I stated, “Me”.’
Lynn claimed the person then threatened to stab him earlier than spitting on him.
Lynn stated he walked again inside, reported it on the unit’s entrance desk and locked himself in his cell.
Greg Lynn instructed the court docket spouse Melanie ‘earns peanuts’ in her flight attendant job
He instructed the court docket that the following morning, different prisoners within the unit shouted abuse at him for as much as an hour.
He stated the abuse referred to his household and his dwelling suburb, and included threats that he could be stabbed or bashed.
Crown prosecutor Mark Gibson SC put it to Lynn that he was extremely delicate about informants and apprehensive a prisoner would possibly make a false assertion in opposition to him.
‘I used to be delicate to that,’ Lynn stated. ‘I used to be apprehensive that they could make up lies.’
Mr Gibson requested whether or not he knew that calling somebody an informant was the ‘highest insult’ to a fellow prisoner and was more likely to provoke a response.
‘And it was a really correct time period as nicely,’ Lynn stated. ‘It was the reality.’
Lynn insisted he did not assume he was insulting the opposite inmate and added: ‘I used to be conscious that he would in all probability not take it very nicely, however it was the reality.’
Mr Gibson claimed the incident ‘wasn’t out of the blue’ and was ‘an argy bargy between two prisoners, one among whom is alleging the opposite to be a police informant’.
Lynn is accused of murdering Carol Clay (left) who had been on a tenting journey with Russell Hill (proper)
‘I’m the sufferer right here,’ Lynn complained.
‘I’m the goal of this informant. To recommend that I’ve in some way orchestrated an assault on myself, that’s simply ridiculous, sir.’
The prosecutor additionally stated CCTV of the July incident confirmed no bodily interplay between the 2 males.
‘He pokes me and he spat on me. That should be seen on the CCTV. I problem you to convey it right here and present it,’ Lynn stated.
Mr Gibson instructed the court docket the footage had been destroyed as a result of it confirmed nothing.
Lynn stated he’s now held in a unit the place he’s locked down for 23 hours a day.
He stated workers had urged different items, however he didn’t really feel protected there.
If bailed, Lynn hoped to return dwelling to dwell along with his son.
Police informant Sergeant Brett Florence arrives on the bail listening to on Thursday
Lynn addressed a priority that he might misuse the airport safety move held by his spouse.
He instructed the court docket he had ‘heard this story’ and rejected it, saying the thought was ‘ridiculous’.
‘The safety move has an image of Melanie on the entrance. I’d not move as a tall, skinny, blonde feminine,’ he stated.
‘Anybody who had to take a look at the move would see that this has clearly been stolen.’
Requested what he would do with it, he stated: ‘Steal an airplane? It’s ridiculous.’
Lynn stated his spouse was a part-time flight attendant for a price range service and could be the one to undergo if he did something together with her move.
‘She earns peanuts. She lives beneath the poverty line, and she or he actually struggles to get by,’ he stated.
‘She would positively lose her job, and she or he’d by no means get a job in aviation once more. It might plunge her into extreme poverty, and it’s simply ridiculous to recommend that I’d do one thing to my household.’
The bail listening to earlier than Chief Justice Richard Niall continues.
Lynn will go to trial over the alleged homicide of Ms Clay in Might.
