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When asked why Grant was eliminated from inquiries, Hiscock said: “Ask [former homicide detective] Ron Iddles.”
Hiscock also told the court he believed the knife found in a car connected to Kouroumblis, near Victoria Park train station, was ruled out as the murder weapon because it was “too big, too rusty”.
The knife, he said, was later stored in the homicide squad’s “murder room”, a separate, non-refrigerated area of the Russell Street police headquarters where exhibits were stored in cardboard boxes.
Hiscock said that in 1998 he passed on all of his recollections and opinions to Detective Stuart Bateson, who was re-investigating the cold case and had contacted the former detective.
Another former detective, Colin Favre, who left the job in 1980, was one of the first officers on scene at Easey Street on the morning on January 13, 1977.
Former detective Colin Favre on Monday.Credit: Wayne Taylor
He and then-colleague Terry Purton told the court they and other officers didn’t wear gloves while at the property because it wasn’t their job to touch things.
Favre was later shown images of a man, thought to be him, holding a towel in his bare hands outside the home while standing at the back of a police car. He agreed the image was likely him.
Detective Senior Constable Sally McCurrach was tasked with collecting a bag of evidence from the property store, now at police headquarters in Spencer Street, in August 2015 and taking items to be forensically examined.
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She said the bag contained blood, hair and nail samples, knives and bedsheets. A note inside the bag indicated other items, including pillows, were missing.
Iddles and Bateson are expected to give evidence on Tuesday.
The hearing, which will determine whether Kouroumblis stands trial, continues.
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