Overview
- A three-judge panel of Justices Karin Emerton, Phillip Priest and Peter Kidd unanimously overturned Lynn’s 2024 conviction and directed a new Supreme Court trial.
- The court found prosecutors challenged Lynn’s credibility without putting key matters to him and unfairly attacked their own ballistics expert, Paul Griffiths, in closing.
- Lynn was remanded in custody and is scheduled to return to the Supreme Court for a directions hearing on January 28, 2026.
- Prosecutors were asked to consider whether manslaughter charges should be advanced at any retrial, with the Director of Public Prosecutions to decide.
- The 32-year sentence imposed in 2024 no longer stands, and Lynn cannot be retried for Russell Hill’s murder due to his prior acquittal.