Grisly Australia murders make for gruesome trial

POLICE hunting several missing people broke into a disused bank vault and found a grisly collection of severed limbs, bones, slabs of flesh and bodies crammed into six barrels, an Australian court heard yesterday.

Speaking at one of Australia’s most gruesome mass murder trials, forensic pathologist John Gilbert said the remains of eight people were taken from the barrels along with fluid and other items including rubber gloves and syringes.

John Justin Bunting, 35, and Robert Wagner, 30, face life sentences if convicted at the trial in Adelaide, which is expected to take six months and feature about 500 witnesses.