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Watson Trial - Couple Can't Describe Boat Or Man

Published: Tue 27 Jul 1999 06:40 PM
A teenage couple who shared a water taxi with Ben Smart and Olivia Hope watched them board a boat with a man but cannot describe either the man or the boat.
The revelations came when the pair, the last people to see Ben and Olivia alive, gave evidence in the High Court murder trial of Scott Watson today. All the couple could tell the court was that the man was of average height and the male said the boat they boarded was a ketch.
ENDS

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