00:00After a number of delays, the first witness in the trial of Matthew Wright is expected
00:07to give evidence here at the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory in Darwin today.
00:12And that will be prominent Northern Territory businessman and crocodile farmer Michael Burns.
00:18The prosecution did foreshadow on Wednesday that Michael Burns would be providing some
00:23insight into crocodile egg collecting, which is what Chris Wilson and Sebastian Robinson
00:29were doing that day back in 2022 when their chopper crashed in a remote part of the Northern
00:36Territory in Arnhem Land. On Wednesday, during the openings from the prosecutor Jason Galacci,
00:42we heard for the first time what the details and substance of the charges against Mr. Wright are.
00:48He was at pains to make sure that the jury understood that none of the charges alleged
00:53that Mr. Wright was in any way responsible for the crash in 2022 or the death of Mr.
00:59Wilson or indeed the injuries suffered by pilot Sebastian Robinson. Instead, those three charges
01:05of attempting to pervert the course of justice all relate to Mr. Wright's alleged actions in the
01:10aftermath of the crash and namely the allegations that he attempted to interfere or obstruct the
01:16investigation process. Jason Galacci talked through each of the three charges and sort of foreshadowed
01:22what some of the evidence that the jury might hear over the coming weeks will be.
01:27That included things like audio recordings taken from Mr. Wright's phone and covert recordings between
01:34Mr. Wright and Sebastian Robinson in hospital. As I said, Michael Burns will be the first person to
01:40give evidence, followed by a number of other people who were at the scene of the crash back in February of 2022.
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