Crown lays out celebrity crocodile wrangler’s alleged cover-up

ABC NEWS (Australia)

The first witnesses in the high-profile trial of television personality matt wright, are expected to give evidence today at the Supreme Court in Darwin. Mr Wright has pleaded not guilty to three counts of attempting to pervert the course of justice following a fatal crash in February 2022. The prosecution is alleging Mr Wright knew an investigation would take place and was concerned about what might be uncovered.

Transcript

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.

Category

Transcript

Be the first to comment

Recommended