Chief Justice Richard Niall refused Greg Lynn bail ahead of a retrial on the charge that he murdered Carol Clay.

Tuesday's order is a bail refusal on a charge whose earlier conviction was set aside. It is not a new verdict. ABC News, The Age and AAP do not describe the ruling in the same words, and only ABC News dates the retrial to May 2027. The acquittal in Russell Hill's death is already the jury's finding. The Clay count goes back to a trial that has not started.

ABC News, The Age and AAP reported Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026, that Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard Niall refused bail to Greg Lynn. ABC News reported Niall found that the time Lynn had spent on remand did not amount to exceptional circumstances warranting his release, and that he is due to stand trial in May 2027. The Age reported Niall rejected the submission that any delay until the retrial would be inordinate, and rejected Lynn's claim that his time in custody had left him fearing for his safety. AAP reported Niall determined that the conditions Lynn described and his five years on remand were not exceptional. May 2027, an inordinate delay, and five years plus the conditions are three accounts of one refusal. AAP did not date the retrial. The Age said he is expected to face trial next year. The Sydney Morning Herald published the same Age story.

The charge is the murder of Carol Clay. ABC News reported she was a Victorian retiree, that she died at a remote campsite in March 2020, and that her companion Russell Hill also died. The Age reported Clay was 73 and Hill was 74, and that the campsite was in the Wonnangatta Valley in Victoria's High Country. AAP reported the same ages and the same month, and called the place the High Country. The Age reported that in June 2024 a jury found Lynn guilty of murdering Clay, acquitted him of murdering Hill, and that he was sentenced to 32 years with a 24-year non-parole period before that conviction was set aside and a retrial was granted. ABC News reported the acquittal over Hill's death and reported that Lynn has always maintained his innocence, arguing he was not criminally responsible for what happened to the pair. AAP reported the appeal court granted the retrial in December after finding a substantial miscarriage of justice in the first trial. The Age did not print December. ABC News's Tuesday story did not print the 32-year sentence. The Hill acquittal is the jury's finding. The Clay conviction is the one that was set aside.

What he said about custody is in The Age and in AAP, not in ABC News's Tuesday account of the ruling. The Age reported he gave evidence at last week's bail hearing that other inmates attacked him, called him the "killer of old people" and "Greg Lynn from TV," poked him, spat on him, and threw a milk bottle filled with faeces on him, and that he had been kept in "draconian" conditions since his arrest in November 2021. It reported he told the court he had spent stretches in solitary confinement, packed breakfast boxes for "peanuts," and become convinced others wanted to inform on him, and that he said, "I am the victim here." AAP reported he testified about "disgusting" conditions, that he had been assaulted with faeces, and that he was placed in the "dungeon," which AAP called solitary confinement, because it was not safe for him to be around other inmates. ABC News reported he has been in custody since November 2021 and is housed at the Metropolitan Remand Centre. The Age and AAP did not name that prison on Tuesday.

The Age reported Crown prosecutor Mark Gibson KC opposed bail and told the court that, while Lynn had the right to be treated as an innocent man, it appeared to be Lynn's choice to remain in isolation. It reported that under that questioning Lynn rejected a suggestion he might take his airline hostess wife's security pass and steal a plane if he were released. It reported he said he was willing to abide by any conditions. It reported defence barrister Dermot Dann KC argued for bail because of the time on remand, the conditions, and a $70,000 surety from Lynn's son. The son is not named. AAP reported Dann had argued that exceptional circumstances existed. The Age reported this was a second bid, that Lynn arrived at the Supreme Court on Tuesday for the second time in a week, and that another Supreme Court judge refused him bail earlier this year. ABC News and AAP, in their Tuesday stories, did not call the application a second one. Tuesday's order leaves him in custody on the Clay charge. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.