“After she worked out you had killed Nick Martin, did you tell her you were doing government missions?” Hallowes asked the former soldier.
“Yes, I misled her. I let her assume it was in relation to things going on overseas,” he replied.
You told deliberate lies. – Yes, to protect her.
Was it after that you proposed to her? – Yes.
You proposed to this woman you’d been telling a series of lies to? She bought your lies? – Yes. It was a shit thing to do, but yes.
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The man also claimed a series of lies he told Pye during a recorded conversation played to the court where he bragged about his credentials and experience as a soldier were to “big note” himself to the bikie.
Alleged mastermind behind bikie’s killing released on bail for duration of trial
On Friday, Justice Joseph McGrath released previously suppressed information about Pye being released on bail for the duration of his trial.
In documents the judge made publicly available, McGrath stated Pye had been diagnosed with mental health issues that he needed medication for that was not available to him in prison.
“The consequence is that there is real prospect that the accused will be unable to properly engage in his own trial with the result that an issue of the fitness to stand trial will arise,” the statement read.
“If the trial was to proceed, the consequence is that the trial will be adjourned or aborted. That is because expert evidence would be required to consider the question as to whether, the accused, in the absence of the prescribed medication, is fit to stand trial.”
Pye is instead being escorted to and from a Perth suburb by police for the expected three to four weeks the trial will run.
The sniper is due to finish giving evidence on Monday.
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