More than a year after a former pilot was convicted of murdering a missing grandmother and incinerating her remains, his appeal against the conviction and sentence is set to be reviewed.

In June 2024, Greg Lynn was found guilty of murdering 73-year-old Carol Clay, with the jury delivering a split verdict that acquitted him of the murder of her partner, 74-year-old Russell Hill.

The couple had been camping at the same remote location in Victoria’s high country where Lynn had been staying when they vanished in March 2020.

Lynn faced charges of double murder and took the matter to trial, admitting to burning the bodies but asserting the deaths were accidental.

During the trial, he testified before the Supreme Court jury that a struggle over his shotgun with Hill led to its accidental discharge, resulting in Clay being shot in the head.

Hill died after a struggle with Lynn over a knife, and Lynn was found not guilty of his murder.

Lynn put the bodies of Clay and Hill into a trailer, before driving them to a remote bush track.

He admitted he returned seven months later, after the COVID-19 lockdown lifted, to burn their remains into more than 2000 bone fragments.

He was jailed for 32 years, with a non-parole period of 24 years, by Justice Michael Croucher in October 2024.

The ex-Jetstar pilot’s legal team flagged Lynn would appeal the conviction and sentence soon after the jury delivered their verdicts.

His barrister Dermot Dann KC will argue the prosecution had conducted the trial unfairly and there were inconsistencies in the jury’s split verdicts.

Lynn, 59, will be brought in from prison for the appeal.

The hearing before Justices Karin Emerton, Phillip Priest and Peter Kidd will begin today at the Court of Appeal in Melbourne.