Former Jetstar pilot Greg Lynn will remain behind bars until his High Country murder trial in May after his latest bid for bail was refused. 

Lynn, 59, is charged with the murder of Carol Clay, 73, who went missing from a remote campsite in Victoria's northeast in March 2020, alongside her friend Russell Hill, 74.

On Tuesday, Supreme Court of Victoria Chief Justice Richard Niall denied Lynn bail after almost five years in custody. 

Lynn was arrested on November 22, 2021, by heavily armed Special Operations Group officers, who arrived by helicopter at a remote campsite near Arbuckle Junction in Victoria's alpine region.

Lynn hoped to walk out of the front doors of the Supreme Court of Victoria on Lonsdale Street sometime on Tuesday afternoon. 

He had planned to live with his eldest son, Geordie Lynn, in Melbourne.

Geordie had offered the court his life savings as a financial surety to see his father released into his care.

Lynn's bail conditions had been pitched to be 'as close to home detention as you can get'. 

Lynn himself previously told the court he would 'comply with any conditions they require'. 

Senior Crown Prosecutor Mark Gibson had opposed Lynn's release on bail, arguing he had failed to meet the 'exceptional circumstances' threshold required. 

Under Victorian law, because Lynn faces a murder charge, he needed to show exceptional circumstances justifying release. 

Mr Gibson submitted that the combination of factors relied on by the defence did not reach that high legal bar. 

The former pilot's bail was denied despite his complaints about being pelted with faeces and 'bodily fluids' in prison and being spied on by other inmates.

During his bail application hearing last week, Lynn told the court a fellow prisoner hurled a bottle of faeces and bodily fluids at him while he was in protective custody.

He told the court that after his arrest he was taken to Melbourne Assessment Prison and locked down in its solitary confinement unit for 14 days because of COVID quarantine.

After that he was allowed out for one hour a day into a small caged yard.

Lynn said he asked staff why he had been put in the unit and whether he could go into the mainstream prison population.

He said they told him it would not be safe because of his public profile, and that prisoners would seek notoriety by attacking him.

Lynn said he spent six weeks in solitary before being gradually introduced to a 12-cell protection unit, where he was out of his cell from about 8am to 4.30pm.

He described the unit as no bigger than the courtroom, with up to a dozen inmates in 'very intense' living conditions.

Lynn said the attack happened after he had finished giving evidence at his first trial.

He told the court he was alone eating dinner in the unit's yard when another prisoner came to the door with an empty milk bottle filled with faeces and other bodily fluids and threw it at him.

Lynn told the court he reported the attack to the front desk straight away, naming the man responsible.

'He’d prepared this obviously well in advance,' Lynn said of the prisoner.

'He had an empty milk bottle, which he’d filled with faeces and other disgusting material, bodily fluids, and he threw that at me... It was a disgusting attack.'

Lynn named both inmates and prison staff while giving evidence from the witness box.

Lynn said he was locked down in the prison's solitary unit for a week afterwards, even though he was 'the victim in the attack'.

Mr Gibson argued that Lynn's restrictive conditions, including 23-hour lockdowns and separation, largely resulted from his own choices and fixation on the idea that other inmates were police informants trying to 'lag' on him for sentence discounts. 

He said this was not the same as unavoidable exceptional hardship imposed by the system. 

Mr Gibson told the court that while Lynn was entitled to the presumption of innocence, the circumstances advanced did not justify bail. 

Last week, Lynn told the court he had refused to share a holding cell with two prisoners he believed were informants.

When he returned to the unit, he said one of them confronted him on a balcony.

'He was ready to explode. He was like Vesuvius,' Lynn said.

He said the man made threats mentioning ‘s*** bombs’, said he had ‘killed before and he’d kill again’, and told him to think of his family’s safety. 

Lynn said he asked a prison officer to have the two men separated.

Later that afternoon, as he went out to the yard, the man was standing by a meal trolley.

Lynn said the man told him: 'So lagging doesn’t work anymore.'

He said he replied: 'That’s interesting coming from an informant.'

'And he said, "Who's an informant?" And I said, "You are". And he said, "Who am I informing?" And I said, "Me".'

Lynn claimed the man then threatened to stab him before spitting on him.

Lynn said he walked back inside, reported it at the unit's front desk and locked himself in his cell.

Mr Gibson put it to Lynn that he was highly sensitive about informants and worried a prisoner might make a false statement against him.

'I was sensitive to that,' Lynn said. 'I was worried that they might make up lies.'

Mr Gibson asked whether he knew that calling someone an informant was the 'highest insult' to a fellow prisoner and was likely to provoke a reaction.

'And it was a very accurate term as well,' Lynn said. 'It was the truth.'

Lynn insisted he didn't think he was insulting the other inmate and added: 'I was aware that he would probably not take it very well, but it was the truth.'

Mr Gibson claimed the incident 'wasn’t out of the blue' and was 'an argy bargy between two prisoners, one of whom is alleging the other to be a police informant'.

'I am the victim here,' Lynn complained.

'I am the target of this informant. To suggest that I have somehow orchestrated an assault on myself, that is just ridiculous, sir.'