This is an ABC podcast.

If you're on an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Island a person, we want you to know that this

series contains the name of someone who has died.

Today's a big day for me.

I'm on my way to meet one of the few eyewitnesses that actually saw Mark's body on the tracks the morning he was found.

And at the inquest into Mark Hayne's death in 1988, this man's evidence was crucial.

We've heard about him in previous episodes.

His name is Glenn Bryant, and back then he was the assistant station master at West Tamworth.

Hi Glenn, how are you?

Hi Alan, how you?

Good.

I found you.

You did find me, yes.

Nice to meet you.

This is a long way out, come on here.

I'm Alan Clark, and this is unravel. Our season one story is blood on the tracks, an investigation into the death of Aboriginal team Mark Haynes.

And if this is your first time listening, I recommend going back and starting at

episode one. Nine months after Mark died, a public hearing was held to explore the cause and

circumstances of his death. In this episode we'll unpack that inquest through the eyes of an unlikely ally that Mark's family found at the local Tamworth courthouse. I want to speak to Glenn about what he saw that morning and what he said in court.

It's taken him years to agree to speak publicly. Glenn Bryant is 67 years old, clean-shaven with the voice of a Packer Day smoker, but he doesn't smoke.

He actually quit close to 30 years ago.

He's a no-nonsense bloke with calloused hands from decades of handling metal and steel.

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