Bush deaths inquest moves to Cairns

A police officer who went public with concerns about an investigation into the deaths of two north Queensland women will give evidence at a new inquest on Tuesday, more than 20 years after the pair were found dead.

The bodies of Vicki Arnold, 27, and Julie-Anne Leahy, 26, were found dead in a four-wheel drive parked in remote bush land on the Atherton Tableland, west of Cairns, on August 9, 1991.

Two inquests have found Ms Arnold killed her friend before shooting herself dead.

However, the families of both women have rejected the findings and believe both women were murdered.

A third inquest began in Atherton on Monday after the Queensland government last year ordered the matter be reopened.

It will move to Cairns on Tuesday where Bill Hendrikse, who was one of the first police officers on the scene, is expected to give evidence.

Mr Hendrikse told the Nine Network in 2005 he believed the case was a double murder and had been poorly investigated by police.

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