Greg Lynn to seek bail in Victorian Supreme Court after Carol Clay murder conviction overturned

Accused High Country killer Greg Lynn is set to launch a new fight to be released on bail, just two months after a court overturned his conviction.

The 59-year-old former Jetstar pilot is expected to return before Victoria’s Supreme Court on Thursday morning at 9.30am to apply for bail.

Mr Lynn is accused of killing Country Women’s Association stalwart Carol Clay, 73, while camping in the remote Wonnangatta Valley, in Victoria’s High Country, in March 2020.

Ms Clay and her partner, Russell Hill, 74, vanished while camped at the Bucks Camp campground – a search and rescue operation found no trace of the pair after their burnt campsite was found.

Mr Lynn, an avid hunter and camper, was arrested and accused of murdering the pair about 18 months later.

In 2024, a jury found him guilty of Ms Clay’s murder but acquitted him of Mr Hill’s. At trial, Mr Lynn put forward an account of two accidental deaths brought about after Mr Hill stole a firearm.

Last December, a panel of three Court of Appeal judges overturned Mr Lynn’s conviction and sentence, finding a substantial miscarriage of justice had occurred in his trial.

The judges found the trial prosecutor had repeatedly breached fairness rules by unfairly attacking Mr Lynn’s credibility and when dealing with the evidence of police ballistics specialist Paul Griffiths

“Unhappily, we have concluded that the conduct of prosecuting counsel so compromised the fairness of the applicant’s trial that a substantial miscarriage of justice resulted,” they wrote.

“In those circumstances, the applicant’s conviction for murdering Mrs Clay cannot be permitted to stand.”

The judges ordered that Mr Lynn be subject to a new trial and the case was sent back to the Victorian Supreme Court.