Mark Lundy, 56, has been defending charges that he killed his wife Christine and daughter Amber in the early hours of August 30, 2001 at their Palmerston North home. Photo / Mark Mitchell
Mark Lundy, 56, has been defending charges that he killed his wife Christine and daughter Amber in the early hours of August 30, 2001 at their Palmerston North home. Photo / Mark Mitchell
The paint fragments found embedded in the bones of Christine Lundy could have been on her head and picked up by a weapon as it was used on her, rather than the weapon being painted, a court was told today.
The Crown case in the Lundy double-murder trial is thatthe murder weapon was painted the same colours as Mark Lundy's tools.
The 56-year-old has denied killing his wife and daughter in their Palmerston North home on August 30, 2000.Paint fragments were found on Mrs Lundy and her daughter, Amber.
They were light blue, orange and dark blue.
ESR scientists Susan Coulson told the jury in the High Court at Wellington yesterday that paint on tools she had examined matched the light blue and orange fragments.
She could not match the dark blue fragments to paint on the tools.
Today, under cross examination by defence lawyer Julie-Anne Kincade, Ms Coulson agreed that it was impossible to know how the fragments found squashed into Mrs Lundy's bones got there.
"If the weapon contacted the paint on the surface of the skin and went into the head, the weapon could have collected the paint on the way to making the injury."
One paint fragment with light blue paint on top of a layer of dark blue paint was found on Amber.
Ms Coulson said while the light blue paint matched the blue on the tools, she had not examined any tools with both colours present.The jury trial before Justice Simon France continues.
