‘Alarming for a young kid’: What a father and son found at missing campers’ abandoned site

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A burnt campsite, an Esky full of food, a handbag on the front seat of a car. The first people to come across Russell Hill and Carol Clay’s campsite have described the scene to a jury.

A father has described his fear after he and his young son came across the burnt campsite ofFarmer Nicholas Linden told a Supreme Court jury he was spending a night away with his 11-year-old in the Wonnangatta Valley before parts of the state were locked down in the coronavirus pandemic.Linden described unrolling swags and fishing for trout with his son on March 25, 2020 before taking a walk downstream, where they came across the abandoned campsite.

Marquardt said his family looked at the burnt scene from their car before returning to investigate further the following day. “I came closer to the ute and there was an Esky ... right next to the ute on the passenger side of the cab. I looked inside, there was some food in there, it did not look like it was old or foul,” he recalled.

Lynn’s legal team has told the jury both Hill and Clay died accidentally, while the prosecution alleges Lynn, a hunter, killed the pair with murderous intent.Hill and Clay’s campsite, including Hill’s white ute, were torched by Lynn who bundled their bodies into his trailer and drove them out of the valley.

“It took a few attempts to get it turned around,” Matthews said. “The brake lights of the vehicle kept coming on and off on the side of our tent.”

 

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