Trial of celebrity crocodile wrangler enters third week

ABC NEWS (Australia)

The trial of celebrity crocodile wrangler Matt Wright has entered its third week. Mr Wright has pleaded not guilty to charges related to his alleged interference with an investigation into a 2022 helicopter accident which killed his close friend, Chris Wilson, and left a pilot confined to a wheelchair. A witness told the court Matt Wright sent someone to the hospital to collect pilot's mobile phone.

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00:00The next witness to give evidence in the trial of Matt Wright today was Rani Lee.

00:06She is the girlfriend of Sebastian Robinson, the pilot who survived the helicopter accident

00:12in 2022. Mr Robinson gave evidence over several days last week and told the court he has no

00:18memory of the accident and that his recollection of the days afterward Apache. Today, Ms Lee was

00:25asked questions about visiting her boyfriend in the ICU of Royal Brisbane Hospital. She told the

00:31court that after waking from a coma, Mr Robinson was heavily sedated, but that he was able to have

00:36a conversation. She told the court a contact of Mr Wright, a man named Tim Johnson, at one point

00:43visited the injured pilot and asked for his mobile phone and a book. She told the court she couldn't

00:49remember whether the book was Mr Robinson's pilot logbook, but said she refused Mr Johnson

00:54access to her boyfriend's mobile phone. The witness was also asked questions about a party

01:00she and Mr Robinson attended just two days before the crash. She told the court she got very drunk

01:06and does not recall seeing Mr Robinson consuming cocaine. The jury was sent home early today while

01:12lawyers engaged in legal argument. Witnesses are expected to continue giving evidence tomorrow.

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