A witness from Co Antrim, Mr Lee McLaughlin, took a taxi back to his campsite before Mr Greg Bebensee was hacked to death elsewhere, an Australian murder trial heard yesterday.
Defence lawyers for the accused man, Mr Trevor Stokes (26), from Naas, Co Kildare, have claimed Mr McLaughlin might have committed the murder - and then blamed it on his friend to pocket a reward. But yesterday taxi-driver Mr Thomas Robinson said he took Mr McLaughlin from an Irish bar in Darwin to the Shady Glen campsite - "probably" after midnight on June 6th, 1999. Mr Bebensee was murdered between 2.303.30 a.m. on June 6th at a Darwin suburb and prosecutors have insisted Mr McLaughlin was asleep in his tent when it happened.
The trial continues in the Darwin Supreme Court.