Ex-Jetstar pilot Greg Lynn’s wife is STILL standing by him after he was jailed for killing camper Carol Clay – as she’s seen clearing up rubbish outside their home and carrying a book with a heartbreaking message
The wife of former Jetstar pilot Greg Lynn has found comfort in a popular self-help book while busying herself around the family home she once shared with the convicted killer.
Melanie Lynn was spotted on Friday carrying the Tara Schuster book Buy Yourself the F***ing Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who’s Been There during a clean-up around her Melbourne home.
The Schuster self-help book tells the story of the former TV executive’s path to re-parenting herself and becoming a ‘ninja of self-love’.
In a blurb promoting the book, Schuster writes how simple, daily rituals transformed her mind, body, and relationships.
Ms Lynn is still living in the double-storey home in Caroline Springs where her murderous husband lived out a double life with her until his arrest in November 2021.
Lynn, 57, was found guilty in the Supreme Court of Victoria in June of murdering elderly camper Carol Clay – but not guilty of murdering her secret lover Russell Hill.
On Friday, Lynn’s flight attendant wife was spotted still sporting the wedding ring Lynn had placed upon on her finger following the suicide of his first wife Lisa.
A day earlier, Ms Lynn was seen outside the property attending to her garden, pruning trees and touching up sections along her driveway with a paint brush.
Melanie Lynn goes off on a rubbish collection walk with a self-help book
Melanie Lynn was spotted carrying a copy of Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who’s Been There. the self-help book (right) appears to be helping her get her life back on track
Melanie Lynn continues to wear her wedding ring as a sign of support for her husband, now facing life in jail for murder
It was the same location her husband used to paint his infamous ‘murder wagon’ – a Nissan Patrol he repainted beige using house paint and a roller after the deaths.
Ms Lynn was later seen welcoming guests into the home and sending them away with plants.
It is the same house where Lynn kept a warchest of deadly guns and knives he used to stalk and hunt his prey.
It had also contained the Turkish-made 12-gauge Barathrum shotgun Lynn brought home and cleaned after blasting Ms Clay in the face with it.
The two-storey property remains plastered with signs warning uninvited visitors not to approach it.
They have been there since Lynn was found guilty of Ms Clay’s murder on June 25.
Hand-in-hand with Lynn’s son Geordie – from the convicted killer’s ill-fated first marriage – Ms Lynn was a constant support throughout her husband’s six-week trial.
Day after day, the flight attendant would march past waiting media to take her seat within courtroom three of the Supreme Court of Victoria.
Ms Lynn would blow kisses at her shackled husband as he entered the courtroom and wave at him furiously from the top tier.
Towards the end of the trial, Ms Lynn and his son sat directly in front of Lynn who was in the prison dock just metres from them both.
Lynn is scheduled to return to court for a pre-sentence hearing on September 12.
Daily Mail Australia can reveal he is yet to lodge any notice of appeal with the court despite his barrister indicating the legal bid was likely before he was sentenced.
In July, the court heard the split verdict threatened to end up in the Supreme Court of Appeal where Lynn’s lawyers are expected to eventually land to fight to have his murder conviction overturned altogether.
Melanie Lynn cleans random rubbish off the street near her Caroline Springs home on Friday
Melanie Lynn collected trash off the road near her Caroline Springs property
Melanie Lynn disposes of of the garbage she found littering her neighbourhood
Lynn’s barrister Dermot Dann KC said he was in the process of compiling submissions calling on Justice Michael Croucher to abort sentencing his client until the appeal is heard.
Mr Dann told the court he believed sentencing his client would be made difficult due to what he described as the ‘unsafe guilty verdict’ delivered by Lynn’s jury at trial.
The jury had heard Ms Lynn and her stepsons had no idea Lynn had been living a secret double life directly under their noses until police charged him with two murders.
He had managed to convince his family he had nothing to do with the camper mystery, which the jury heard had been the subject of widespread media reports for more than a year before the pilot’s arrest.
When a car matching the description of Lynn’s was shown on 60 Minutes, the court heard his wife laughed out loud because of the similarity.
‘She’s cackling like a hyena, it might be said,’ Justice Croucher observed while the jury was out.
The audio had been captured on secret police listening devices in Lynn’s Caroline Springs home and was never played to the jury.
Lynn paints over his ‘murder wagon’ outside his Caroline Springs home after murdering Carol Clay
Greg Lynn is led into a prison van during his Supreme Court of Victoria murder trial
Melanie Lynn and her stepson Geordie arrive at court for closing arguments in the trial on June 12
Wrapped in a doona within the ice-cold interview room of the Sale police station, in Victoria’s Gippsland region, Lynn told detectives his wife was clueless about what he had been up to since his fateful run-in with the elderly campers.
While Lynn had always denied murdering the couple, the jury repeatedly heard he freely admitted to cleaning up the alleged crime scene and destroying the evidence.
When Lynn was arrested in November 2021 in Victoria’s rugged wilderness, his wife was caught completely by surprise.
‘The car in the images did look a lot like my car,’ Lynn explained to the jury while in the witness box.
‘It, um, it was my car. My family still didn’t believe that it was my car. Um, they thought that was quite comical that it looked so familiar.
‘But it certainly did look like my car and removing the awning made it look less.’
Video of Lynn removing his 4WD’s awning was also played to the jury.
It showed Lynn pull into the driveway of his home with a gas tank before returning to remove the distinctive awning that was attached to the vehicle in the image shown on 60 Minutes.
Lynn had already gone to the effort of changing the colour of his vehicle and sell the trailer that featured on the program.
An image shown to the jury captured Lynn using an ordinary roller to paint his vehicle in June 2020 – just months after police allege he murdered the campers.
His wife had taken the supposed happy snap later used in evidence against him.
‘Well, she’s seen me paint it many times before,’ Lynn told police during his record of interview.
Lynn was convicted of murdering Carol Clay (left) but not of Russell Hill (right). They had been camping in the Wonnangatta Valley in the Victorian Alps when they encountered Lynn
Greg Lynn outside the Caroline Springs home in which his wife continues to reside
Melanie and Greg Lynn in happier times.
Lynn said he used Dulux Metal Shield for the makeshift paint job, with a ‘sandbank’ colour he previously bought to paint his Jayco Hawk campervan.
‘So, you know, “Oh, here he goes again, he’s painting his car”,’ Lynn told police.
At the time, Lynn had been stood down from his job as a pilot because of the first of many Covid lockdowns in Victoria.
Lynn told police his wife had been preoccupied with the pandemic when he returned from his fateful trip into the wilderness.
‘When I came back from that one, the whole world was just falling apart. Yeah. That was on Sunday,’ he told police.
‘I’d spoken to her on the Saturday, and she told me, “Greg, the whole country is going into lockdown, this is absolute pandemonium”.
‘I said, “I could tell something was up, ’cause of all the cars just driving every which way”.’
Greg Lynn during his police record of interview following his arrest
Russell Hill’s burnt out camp site after Lynn shot dead Carol Clay
Lynn told police his wife was more worried about obtaining basic supplies during the Covid lockdown than what he had been up to out in the bush.
‘And she said, “You can’t buy toilet paper, you can’t buy cleaning stuff ’cause the stores are just empty”,’ Lynn said.
‘When I arrived, she took me to the refrigerator, and she had up there a Covid plan that she’d taken from the paper, and spent the whole afternoon telling me what I missed the past week as the world was unravelling.
‘So that was how that day was spent – she didn’t ask anything about my trip.’
Taking to the witness box in June, Lynn told the jury he still hadn’t talked to his family about what went on in the wilderness.
He claimed he did not tell his wife out of fear of making her an accessory to the crime of destroying evidence.
‘I lied to my wife,’ Lynn said.
‘It would be involving her in a problem that was nothing to do with her… I lied to my wife to protect her… If I told her, then she would then be involved in it.’
Lynn told the jury he had been placed into financial difficulty by the Covid-19 lockdowns directly after the alleged murders.
‘At that time I was living with my wife and we still had a mortgage on our house. She had part-time work as a flight attendant, which is not well-paid, and it would have caused severe financial hardship for us, for I still had two boys living at home at that stage; one in high school,’ Lynn said.
It remains unclear if the family of Mr Hill will be allowed to contribute victim impact statements at Lynn’s planned pre-sentence hearing next month.
Lisa Lynn had been living in fear of Greg Lynn at the time of her suicide
Lisa Lynn was found dead in October 1999 after consuming a lethal cocktail of booze and sleeping tablets.
Detectives are now looking to have the Victorian coroner open a second inquest into the mother-of-two’s tragic death.
Lisa was found in the foetal position out the front of the family’s home, while the couple’s two children, aged one and three, were asleep inside.
Victorian Coroner Graeme Johnstone said Lisa was believed to have been deeply depressed at the time of her death.
However, the coroner was left with outstanding questions over whether she had intended to take her own life or not.
Lisa’s mother, who would travel from Tasmania to help her struggling daughter, provided a disturbing statement to the coroner about Greg Lynn, including accusations of animal cruelty, violence and ‘bizarre’ behaviour.
‘In addition to not gaining any support from Greg, he would subject her to physical and mental abuse on a regular basis,’ she told the coroner.
‘These events happened too frequently to remember, specifically but things like losing his temper for no reason and blaming Lisa for anything that went wrong.
‘He then would yell and throw things at her and push her around. I felt very uncomfortable when these events occurred because I was not inclined to interfere and Lisa would plead with me not to interfere.’
Lisa’s mum told the court Lynn verbally attacked a man in the bar after he made the mistake of speaking to Lisa.
He then flew into a ‘rage’ at his then wife after leaving the hotel, she told the coroner.
‘The only thing that I would like to add is that as far as I’m concerned, Greg is responsible for my daughter’s death by mental torture inflicted by him,’ Lisa’s mum told the court.
