Accused killer Gregory Lynn claims: ‘I am the victim here’

Accused high country killer Greg Lynn has told a judge he's the victim, describing attacks in prison and how he's being paid peanuts to pack breakfast boxes behind bars as he begs to be released on bail ahead of a retrial next year over the alleged murder of Carol Clay, who vanished on a camping trip in Victoria's Wanangatta Valley more than six years ago.

Erin, let's very quickly sum up for the listeners what happened in yesterday's bail hearing.

And then we'll take everyone through some of these points in much finer detail.

But it was a very interesting day in the courtroom.

That's right.

And it was also the second time that we've seen Greg Lynn and his legal team attend court to apply for bail.

So very, very quickly, we know June 2024, jury found Lynn guilty of murdering Carol Clay, missing camper Carol Clay, and acquitted him of murdering fellow camper Russell Hill.

Now, these two were in their 70s at the time.

He was then sentenced to 32 years imprisonment, 24-year non-parole period.

Then he took the matter to the Court of Appeal and his conviction was set aside and he was ordered to face a retrial next year.

Now, this is a really big part of his application for bail and why he should be released because he has been in custody now for about five years since his arrest.

But essentially, Penny, what we heard is Greg Lynn say he has become a victim in prison.

There'd been a string of alleged attacks, threats and allegations where other inmates had yelled at him, you know, you're the killer of old people.

We know that you're Greg Lynn from TV and that you should be worried essentially or thinking about your safety and the safety of your family.

So Lynn is giving evidence in his bail application.

We know that he's got up then and talked about... that he says he's been poked, spat on, kept in a cage like a greyhound and, as you just mentioned, paid peanuts for packing breakfast boxes.

He says in his evidence during his bail application that the conditions that he's been kept in while incarcerated are draconian and he's only allowed outside for short periods of time.

This, he says, has made him feel like he needs to not only stay in solitary confinement when it's his choice to, but also... developed this fear that the people around him in the prison that he's currently in are trying to inform on him.

Essentially, potentially, he fears, make up lies about him, make statements then to police that would get those inmates reduced sentences.

And that was really a big part of his evidence.

These were a lot of the

allegations that Greg Lynn was saying from his own mouth,

not

just...

We often see, obviously, there's his defence team there, Dermot, Dan, KC leading that.