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Prosecutor tipped to tell Lucille Butterworth’s family murder charge not possible
The Lucille Butterworth murder case is set to come to a head on Friday with Tasmania’s top prosecutor expected to tell her family he will not be prosecuting the man named as her killer in the coronial inquest.
The part-time model disappeared from a bus stop in the Hobart suburb of Claremont in August 1969.
An inquest into her disappearance began in 2015.
The man named as the main person of interest to the inquest, Geoffrey Charles Hunt, gave evidence and denied he had anything to do with her disappearance.
Mr Hunt was jailed in 1976 for the rape and murder of Hobart car saleswoman Susan Knight.
The inquest heard evidence from police that when he was arrested for Miss Knight’s murder, he also confessed to Miss Butterworth’s.
But the inquest heard that the only written record he had been questioned by detectives about Miss Butterworth’s disappearance was a note which said he could give no information …