An inquest into the death of a young nanny in northern NSW has been told she was having an affair with a drummer in a rock band whose wife was responsible for her death.
The inquest resumed today into the death of Penny Hill, 20, who died two weeks after she was found slumped on the side of the road at Coolah on July 8, 1991.
Ms Hill worked at the Black Stump Motel in Coolah for Col Baigent, a drummer with the Australian rock group Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, and his then wife, Barbara Baigent.
Glebe Coroners Court today heard a cook at the motel, Bob Lee, told friends that Ms Baigent had killed Ms Hill.
Mr Lee died in October 1991, but his former neighbour, Terence Baker, told the inquest Mr Lee had confided in him.
"He told you the motel was owned by someone who was formerly in a rock band and that that person (the motel owner) had been sleeping with the girl in question," counsel assisting the coroner, Warwick Hunt, put to Mr Baker, who agreed.
"(He told you) the motel owner's wife had found out and the wife was the person responsible (for the girl's death)."
Mr Baker agreed this was the case.
The court heard Mr Lee told another friend, Tony Bento, that when he and Mr Baigent returned from hunting on the night Ms Hill was injured, Ms Baigent was "hysterical" and Ms Hill was unconscious.
But Debra Carley, who was also working at the motel that night, denied that.
"She wasn't hysterical about anything," Ms Carley said.
The inquest into the murder of Ms Hill was suspended in Tamworth in May after the court was told new evidence had come to light.
It is continuing before Deputy State Coroner Sharon Freund.
