Last Seen Katoomba 05 | The Visitor
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🗓️ 5 March 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Some of the most explosive moments in Belinda Peisley’s inquest happen between lawyer Phil Strickland and the man we’re calling Luke.
Luke admits to using heroin and to staying on Belinda’s floor from time to time, like a lot of their crowd in Katoomba at the time. He’s got a violent past and a long rap sheet, but denies being a standover man or ever demanding money from Belinda.
In the coroner’s court, Luke is grilled about an alleged conversation he had in jail with a fellow prisoner who remembers Luke bragging about smashing Belinda’s head with a rock.
Luke denies all these accusations.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an ABC podcast. Just a warning, there's some strong language in this episode and discussion |
| 0:09.0 | of domestic violence. Also, if this is your first time listening to the series, it'll make a lot more |
| 0:15.7 | sense if you go back and start from episode one. |
| 0:26.0 | In September 1998, the month Belinda Peasley disappeared. |
| 0:31.0 | A 26-year-old man from the Blue Mountains, who we're calling Luke, was in the process of splitting up with his partner. |
| 0:32.7 | I had my ownership going on in an ongoing relationship meltdown. At the time. I mean, every minute I had, |
| 0:41.9 | I was trying to contact and get in contact with the unwa-X. We've changed Luke's name and disguised |
| 0:48.1 | his voice for legal reasons. Luke's ex-partner had ended the relationship and didn't want to |
| 0:53.7 | see him anymore. |
| 0:55.0 | And the inquest into Belinda's disappearance heard that there was a good reason for this. |
| 0:59.0 | I want to put this to you, in September 1998, you were completely out of control, weren't you? |
| 1:05.0 | Was, I? Did you name? He was all a friend of yours? |
| 1:07.0 | No! |
| 1:08.0 | Did you agree that in September 1998 you were prone to violent outbursts? |
| 1:12.7 | No. |
| 1:14.1 | Never? |
| 1:14.7 | No. |
| 1:15.4 | But you never engaged in violence in September 98? |
| 1:18.1 | No. |
| 1:19.5 | But this isn't true. |
| 1:21.5 | That month Luke was charged with breaching an apprehended violence order against his ex |
| 1:25.8 | after a wild scene broke out at the local |
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