NORFOLK ISLAND - Jurors from Norfolk Island's first murder trial in 150 years have been taken on a minibus trip to view key sites mentioned in the case against Glenn McNeill, who is accused of killing Sydney woman Janelle Patton.
Prosecutors allege the New Zealand chef abducted the
29-year-old as she took her morning walk on March 21, 2002. McNeill, 29, has pleaded not guilty to Ms Patton's murder.
During nine days of evidence, the 11-member jury has heard witnesses describe crime scenes and other locations around the tiny Pacific territory.
They visited those sites yesterday under the court's supervision, escorted by Chief Justice Mark Weinberg and his associate, prosecution and defence lawyers and police.
First stop was the golf club, where a witness heard what sounded like a drawn-out scream around the time Ms Patton was last seen alive.
The jurors proceeded to the flat where Ms Patton lived on Allendale Drive, walked along Rooty Hill Rd, where Ms Patton was seen by a motorist and damaged sunglasses were found the morning after her death.
They then inspected a flat at the end of Little Cutters Corn, which was leased by McNeill and his wife Aliesha Taylor at the time of the alleged murder, and ended the tour at Cockpit Waterfall Reserve, where tourists discovered Ms Patton's body in a picnic area under a sheet of black plastic.
Back in court the jurors heard evidence from carpenter Berend Klazema who said that a photograph of the black plastic found with Ms Patton's body "certainly looks like the offcut we brought over to Little Cutters Corn".
But, questioned by defence lawyer Peter Garling, SC, he could not swear the piece of plastic was on the site he was building a home on in Easter 2002.
The trial continues today.
- AAP
