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Sky News AU
2 hours ago
- Sky News AU
Date confirmed for Greg Lynn's sentence and conviction appeal over murder of 73-year-old Carol Clay
The date of convicted murderer Greg Lynn's sentencing and conviction appeal has been confirmed, more than a year after he was found guilty of killing Victorian camper Carol Clay. A jury found Lynn guilty of murdering 73-year-old Ms Clay in 2020 during a camping trip after a five-week trial in June 2024. He was handed a 32-year sentence with a 24-year non-parole period, which Lynn's lawyers have argued were "manifestly excessive". His defence has also argued he suffered a "substantial miscarriage of justice". The appeal date has been officially set to take place on October 31. The former Jetstar pilot had pleaded not guilty to murdering Russell Hill, 74, and Ms Clay while on a March 2020 camping trip in Victoria's remote High Country. The couple was reported missing to police after they hadn't been heard from by their families, and which sparked an extensive manhunt in the Wonnangatta Valley. The campers were childhood sweethearts who were involved in a secret romance since 2006. Lynn was arrested more than a year after their disappearance and charged over their deaths, with prosecutors alleging Lynn had killed the retirees with murderous intent The 58-year-old's lawyers are set to raise five points in his appeal case as they attempt to either overturn the conviction or have the sentence reduced. These include claims evidence from a police ballistics expert was a "serious departure" from fair trial rules and that in reaching a verdict the jury had ventured down an "impermissible pathway" and reached an "unsafe and satisfactory" verdict as a result. They will also argue prosecutor Daniel Porceddu breached fairness rules because he didn't put key statements to Lynn while he was in the witness box. Just one week after being found guilty, Lynn was attacked at Melbourne Assessment Prison and had faeces thrown at him by a fellow inmate. It was believed an inmate who knows Ms Clay's family asked another inmate to attack Lynn.
Scotsman
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
20 great photos of former Edinburgh attraction that made a splash in the 90s Leith Waterworld
Leith Waterworld was a leisure pool built on the site of the former Leith Central railway station, which opened in 1992. It was the only pool in Edinburgh with a wave machine, and there was also a fast river run and flumes. It was closed in January 2012 in order to save funds for the Royal Commonwealth Pool's renovation and re-opening. A campaigning group against the closure, called Splashback, were funded to carry out feasibility studies, but the property has been converted into a children's soft-play centre. It first closed in November 1999 after problems were found including tiles coming away from walls, electrical problems and rusting structures. It reopened in 2002 and a new multisensory play area was introduced in 2003. Edinburgh's only other flumes opened at the Royal Commonwealth Pool in the late 80s, but unfortunately the much-loved 'Commie' flumes, including the ultra-fast Stingray and the more relaxing River Rapids, were removed in the early 2000s. 1 . Making a splash Kids enjoying the watershoots at Leith Waterworld in March, 1998. | TSPL Photo: National World Photo Sales 2 . Opening Children celebrate the opening of the new swimming pool at Leith Waterworld in May 1992. | TSPL Photo: National World Photo Sales 3 . In the pool Teenagers in the pool at Waterworld in Leith, March 1993. | TSPL Photo: National World Photo Sales 4 . Bubble pool Lynn and Shauni (5) Noble enjoying the bubble pool at Leith Waterworld in March, 1998. | TSPL Photo: National World Photo Sales Related topics: EdinburghRenovationProperty
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
A sweet ambush: Fred Lynn and Jim Rice's bond still gold 50 years after 1975 Red Sox pennant
BOSTON — Back in Boston for a weekend in May, Fred Lynn was killing time on a Friday afternoon at Dick's House of Sport on Boylston Street. An avid golfer, Lynn loafed through the aisles looking at irons and shirts, and then a sign caught his eye: MEET HALL OF FAMER JIM RICE Saturday 12-1 p.m. 'Ah-ha-ha! Sweet!' Lynn laughed. The moment Lynn saw that advertisement, it was settled. He was coming back the following day to surprise his former teammate. It's been 50 years since fans first lined up to see Lynn and Rice, when they were electrifying Fenway Park. To the public they were the 'Gold Dust Twins.' To each other, they were two friends chasing a dream together. Lynn and Rice first took the field together during the summer of 1973 in Double-A Bristol, where Rice swung his way to the Eastern League Triple Crown. At season's end, both were called up to Pawtucket, where they helped win the Triple-A Junior World Series. It was on those long minor league bus rides that the roots of their friendship were first planted. 'We became teammates and we became friends,' Rice said. 'It didn't matter if Freddie came up or I came up. Just the way that we mingled.' A two-sport star collegiately at Southern Cal, Lynn was a second-round pick in 1973. As he was being scouted and recruited at USC, there were plenty of people from the L.A. Dodgers around and he assumed he'd end up in Dodger Blue. 'I never saw a Red Sox scout. Never,' Lynn said. For Rice, a first-round pick in 1971 out of T.L. Hanna High School in South Carolina, that part of the experience was the same. 'I didn't either,' Rice said. 'You didn't have scouts. We called them bird dogs. So you go by mouth. You go by someone watching you that knows a scout, and he would talk to the scout about that... that was bird dogs.' In 2025, the Red Sox have roughly 275 members in their front office, but in the early 1970s those old bird dogs hit on both Rice and Lynn. After brief cameos in the big leagues in 1974, Lynn and Rice combined for one of the most memorable rookie seasons in baseball history the following summer. They weren't viewed as saviors coming into the year. In spring training of 1975, outfielder Tony Conigliaro was attempting a comeback, and it wasn't a certainty that both rookies would make the team, let alone bat third and fourth for a pennant winner. Amidst a spring training slump, Rice told the Boston Globe that he'd produce if he made the team. 'I'll guarantee you this: If I get 400-450 at-bats, I'll hit between .280 and .300 and hit 20-25 dingers,' Rice told Peter Gammons in 1975. Though Rice was a first-round pick and Lynn a second, they didn't face the expectations that are put on current top prospects. The landscape was different. Veterans dominated the headlines. 'You don't think about (expectations),' Rice said. 'Why? Because you have some guy named Carl Yastrzemski. You've got some guy named Rico Petrocelli. You've got experienced guys. So here you are 21 or 22 years old, you haven't done anything in the big leagues. So you don't think about that. You sit over there and you keep your mouth shut.' Still, with their mouths shut, Rice and Lynn opened eyes across baseball. En route to an improbable American League pennant, Lynn hit .331 with 21 home runs and 105 RBIs, winning the AL MVP, Rookie of the Year and a Gold Glove. Meanwhile, the Rookie of the Year runner-up was Rice, who made good on his spring training prediction, hitting .309 with 22 homers and 102 RBIs. Lynn credited their quick big league acclimation to the bonds they'd forged before reaching Fenway Park. 'We didn't have to go through this process on an individual basis. We were a team,' Lynn said. 'Then we were the 'Gold Dust Twins.' But we relied on each other. And fortunately, in the lineup, we hit 3-4 for the most part. And then we played left and center. So we had a relationship that started before we got to the big leagues, which helped us a lot.' Both Lynn and Rice went on to have terrific major league careers. Rice spent all 16 seasons in Boston and has a Hall of Fame bust in Cooperstown, while Lynn was on a similar track until a knee injury slowed him following a 1981 trade to the Angels. Reflecting on their time in Boston and the incredible 1975 season, Lynn harped on the importance of being alongside Rice in the clubhouse. 'Having Jimmy there for me was huge,' Lynn said. 'I can't say strongly enough how big an advantage that was for me to have somebody like Jimmy there. Because it wasn't just me hogging the spotlight or having a good day, Jimmy's doing the same thing. So the spotlight wasn't just on one of us.' With the spotlight on Rice at Dick's House of Sport 50 years later, his friend couldn't resist sharing it with him once again. He returned to the store that Saturday, and a few minutes before Rice was set to hit the stage, his phone lit up with a text message from Lynn. 'Oh Mr. Rice, we're all waiting for you.' Readying for his appearance, Rice saw the message and called Lynn to ask where he was. 'I'm down here waiting for you, Mr. Rice!' Lynn said. The Gold Dust twins are in their golden years now. But five decades later, those bonds haven't been broken. They're still joking the way they did when they were kids. 'I ambushed him,' Lynn grinned. Read the original article on MassLive.
Washington Post
6 days ago
- General
- Washington Post
Carolyn Hax: One daughter's wedding slips through cracks of another's divorce
Dear Carolyn: I have five children, two daughters. 'Lynn' is 40, and 'Emma' is 29. Lynn got married 15 years ago, and since she was the first bride of the younger generation, a big fuss was made over her wedding by me, my two sisters and especially my mother. Emma is getting married next month, but since she is the fifth and last bride in our family, it's not as big a deal. That's the way it was in the previous generation, too, because this happened to my sister, the sixth bride that time around.
ABC News
12-07-2025
- Health
- ABC News
What is kleptomania? Understanding the compulsive urge to steal
Lynn* can remember the very first time she stole something. A kid's toy from a friend when she was seven years old. It was nothing out of the ordinary — young kids often steal and tend to grow out of it. But as she got older, Lynn found herself stealing more often. She'd take hair ties from her teacher's desk, umbrellas from her university, a small doll from the shops. And at 22, the urge to steal has taken over Lynn's life. "Almost everywhere I go right now I have to steal something, which is really disabling for me," she says. Two years ago, Lynn was officially diagnosed with kleptomania — a mental health condition characterised by a compulsive urge to steal. Kleptomania is considered an "impulse control disorder" under the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), a clinician's key handbook for mental health conditions. Impulse control disorders are a relatively rare cluster of conditions that also includes pyromania (an intense fascination with fire and the repeated, deliberate setting of fires) and oppositional defiant disorder (a pattern of disobedient or hostile behaviour towards authority figures in childhood). People with kleptomania repeatedly steal items, but they do it impulsively and they find it very difficult to stop," says Sam Chamberlain, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Southampton. "Importantly, when they steal these items, it's not because they need them and it's not for personal or financial gain," he says. According to Dr Chamberlain, the typical pattern of behaviour for someone with kleptomania is a sense of tension that builds up before the theft, followed by a feeling of gratification or release after they've done it. Lynn says the urges feel like she is being pulled towards a particular object — that "it feels like there's no way of not taking it." She says it feels reflexive and difficult to suppress, like a sneeze or a yawn. And once she's taken the object, there's a rush of euphoria, quickly followed by guilt. "After a minute already I feel so very guilty about it. And I feel like a terrible human being," she says. Despite being mentioned in medical manuscripts for hundreds of years, kleptomania is still not well understood. "It's really stigmatised and hidden," Dr Chamberlain says. "And this means, sadly, that the person with a condition will suffer more. "It also makes this condition hard to study because people might be reluctant to come forward for research and admit that they've got this condition," he adds. The evidence we do have suggests about three to six in every 1,000 people have kleptomania. That makes it much rarer than conditions like anxiety and depression, which affect sizeable proportions of the population. It typically emerges during someone's teenage years and is thought to be more common in women than men — though again, that finding is based on the limited number of people diagnosed with the disorder. And while the numbers of people affected are small, kleptomania can be debilitating. Lynn often avoids going to the shops or visiting friends because she's scared of stealing and being caught. "And my parents will know and I will be arrested and convicted and the anxiety starts going up from there," she says. Concealing the condition — and the associated anxiety that comes with it — is typical of people with kleptomania, Dr Chamberlain says. "We often see that people, develop, anxiety and depressive disorders and other addictions such as alcohol use disorder. Sometimes these can be a direct consequence of the kleptomania and other times they can be happening in parallel." Research into kleptomania is limited, and work that examines the drivers of the condition is less common still. While no clear cause has been identified, we do know people with severe symptoms of kleptomania are more likely to also be diagnosed with other conditions such as obsessive-compulsive disorder or an eating disorder. They also tend to have higher levels of impulsivity. "This means that in terms of their personality, they have a tendency towards doing things on the spur of the moment. Maybe in response to reward, perhaps not planning things through to the extent that a less impulsive person would," Dr Chamberlain says. When researchers look at the brains of people diagnosed with kleptomania against those who don't have the condition, there appear to be subtle differences in the white matter tracts (bundles of nerve fibres) that connect key parts of the brain together. "We also see changes in the white matter tracts … in people with other conditions such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or obsessive-compulsive disorder," Dr Chamberlain says. "So probably there's some kind of common brain processes contributing to these different conditions." After receiving her diagnosis two years ago, Lynn trialled a number of different strategies to curb her impulses. These included talking therapies, recordings of her friends' words of encouragement she plays through headphones while at the shops, and a card she carries listing the potential consequences of stealing. She's also been prescribed the drug naltrexone, which is most often used to treat alcohol use disorder — and which has the best evidence of any medication for treating kleptomania, Dr Chamberlain says. A small but high-quality study done in 2009 found the drug was better than a placebo pill in reducing both urges and actual stealing among people with kleptomania. "So naltrexone is often a useful choice, but obviously as with any medication there are side effects for some people … it's not the easiest medication to prescribe," he says. For Lynn, none of these treatments have been effective in reducing her stealing. She wants more work done in researching ways to address the urges. In the meantime, she manages as best she can. "I have never been caught, and I hope to let it stay that way. But I'm not sure how long I will be able to," she says. *Lynn's name has been changed to protect her identity. Listen to the full episode of All In The Mind about kleptomania and its impact , and follow the podcast for more.
