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“Historically, these areas are very well adapted to fire,” said Mr. Linley, also a Charles Sturt University ecologist.

Dale Nimmo, an ecologist at Charles Sturt University in Australia, was asked to fact-check the rumors of hero wombats that spread during the fires.

Det Sgt Steve Ferguson told jurors that from the beginning of September 2022, when the evidence started, Ms Marten was receiving monthly payments from the Sturt Family Trust which were being paid to her by the private bank Hoares into her Metro bank account.

Craig Sturt had been charged with obtaining services by deception, being unlawfully airside and boarding an aircraft without permission on 25 December, the Met Police said.

It is understood Mr Sturt travelled on a British Airways flight from Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 on 23 December without a passport or boarding pass.