Overview

• Pilot Sebastian Robinson’s mother told the jury Wright offered her family $10,000 to help with bills during a March 11, 2022 hospital visit, and she said they declined.
• Under cross-examination, the defence challenged Noelene Chellingworth’s diary entries as after-the-fact additions and queried revised invoicing, which she denied falsifying.
• Family witnesses maintain Wright asked the injured pilot to move 15–20 hours from the crashed helicopter IDW to Robinson’s own aircraft ZXZ and to delete material from his phone.
• Earlier testimony described an associate seeking the pilot’s phone and leaving with a diary or logbook before returning it after the family intervened, which the defence says was legitimate paperwork housekeeping.
• Wright has pleaded not guilty to three counts of attempting to pervert the course of justice, with prosecutors focusing on alleged post-crash record tampering and the defence accusing the family of fabrication; the trial continues in Darwin.