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OFFICIALLY CHRISTMAS TIME THE Mansfield Steiner year 10 quartet and teachers played carols before the official lighting of the Christmas tree. Pictured are (from left) Holly Sanders, Lucy Cleeland, Abby Wettenhall, Keely Moggach, Claire Little (obscured), Jessica Cassels (obscured) and Dustin Ersvaer-Gotje.
High Country search ends Police find human remains in High Country and call off search as they await DNA tests By SHAUN McMAHON POLICE have located human remains in bushland near Dargo on day two of their search for missing campers Russell Hill and Carol Clay. The discovery came just five days after a man was arrested and charged with two counts of murder. Special Operations Group members arrived in helicopters at a location near the Licola wilderness
village in East Gippsland on November 22 and slapped the cuffs on a 55 year old man named Greg Lynn. Mr Lynn, who is an airline pilot and lives in Caroline Springs, was taken to Sale police station for questioning where he was subsequently charged after three days of interrogation. Locals reportedly aided police in their search efforts, bringing an excavator and a bobcat to the site of an old gold
mining settlement called Grant just a few kilometres north of Dargo. Reports have detailed that the remains were found buried in a shallow grave in a depression in the earth caused by a fallen tree and displaced root. A ring and a set of dentures were also found at the location and have been sent with bone fragments for forensic testing. Forensic investigator Greg Kelly said it could take weeks
or months to confirm the identities of the remains, but that the probability factor was ‘fairly high’ that it is the missing and allegedly murdered campers. “We are looking not just at the forensic evidence associated with the identification, but also at what physical evidence, material evidence that might be identified,” Mr Kelly said on Channel Nine’s Today program late last week. “As the bodies start to
break down we might find the remains of projectiles or other injuries that help the police put the case together and be the evidence that they will ultimately present in court.” In preparation for their case, police also seized Mr Lynn’s beige Nissan Patrol, alleging that it’s the same blue four-wheel-drive they released pictures of just a few weeks ago, and had been repainted since the couple’s disappearance.
A trailer believed to have been sold on Gumtree and connected with Mr Lynn is also yet to be located and investigators are keen to speak to anyone who may have purchased a rusty silver/blue 7x5 trailer with off road wheels between March and July 2020. The search near Dargo has now concluded and Mr Lynn has been remanded in custody and is set to face court again in May next year.
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