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July 4th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The ex-wife of a one-time rock band drummer has admitted her husband had a “shocking” temper but rejected a suggestion he could have been “provoked” into hurting their former nanny.
A Sydney inquest into the death of Penny Hill, 20, on Wednesday heard allegations that Col Baigent had repeatedly assaulted his former wife, Barbara Baigent.
Ms Baigent was giving evidence into the death of Ms Hill, the young nanny who was discovered lying unconscious on the side of the road on July 8, 1991, near the Black Stump motel the Baigents ran at Coolah in northern NSW.
Ms Hill died in hospital two weeks later without regaining consciousness.
Ms Baigent told Glebe Coroners Court she believed she “triggered” temper outbursts by her husband, who she said had broken her ear drum and assaulted her repeatedly.
Mr Baigent was a former drummer with the Australian rock group Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs.
“I put to you a young naive girl like Penny Hill, who was possibly unaware of his triggers, may have provoked him,” Deputy State Coroner Sharon Freund said to Ms Baigent.
“I don’t think so,” Ms Baigent said.
Ms Baigent said she had always thought Ms Hill’s death was accidental.
“I always thought it was probably an accident, probably nothing intentional. I hadn’t known Penny was strangled,” Ms Baigent said.
“Where did you get this information from?” Ms Freund asked.
“It’s something I thought in my head,” Ms Baigent replied.
Counsel assisting the coroner, Warwick Hunt, said Ms Baigent had previously told police she knew Ms Hill was found lying near the cord of an electric jug.
“How did you arrive at the view it was just an accident?” he said.
“I always thought that it was a single blow to the head, something done in anger,” Ms Baigent said.
The inquest is continuing.
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