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July 3rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The ex-wife of a one-time rock band drummer has denied she is protecting him over the death of their young nanny in northern NSW in 1991.
Penny Hill, 20, had been working as a nanny for Col and Barbara Baigent at the Black Stump motel in Coolah for only three days when she was discovered lying unconscious on the side of the road on July 8, 1991.
She died two weeks later in hospital without regaining consciousness.
Barbara Baigent, 53, told an inquest into Ms Hill’s death at Glebe Coroners Court on Tuesday there was a “certain amount of abuse” during her marriage to Mr Baigent, a former drummer with the Australian rockers Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs.
But she denied her ex-husband “influenced” her when she first gave evidence about Ms Hill’s death in 1991.
The court heard Ms Baigent changed her statement in 2010 to say she couldn’t vouch for Mr Baigent’s whereabouts the night before Ms Hill was discovered, agreeing with police that he was an “intimidating, domineering sort of person”.
But Ms Baigent told the inquest on Tuesday she was “angry” with Mr Baigent when she gave that statement.
“It was a day where I had been shown pictures of the ex-wives and the ladies he was supposed to have touched, and I was made to feel stupid for not knowing these things,” she said.
Counsel assisting the coroner, Warwick Hunt, challenged Ms Baigent’s evidence repeatedly during a heated exchange.
“You have been protecting Col Baigent since 1991,” Mr Hunt said to her.
“No, I haven’t,” she replied.
At another point in questioning, Ms Baigent said, “Would you like me to leave the court … because you’re just badgering me.”
Ms Baigent agreed she might not have sent condolences to the dead woman’s family and that, while Ms Hill was in a coma in hospital, she had given a “negative” account to police about her making phone calls without permission and inviting her boyfriend to stay.
She said she had already decided Ms Hill was not going to work out as a nanny before she was discovered on the side of the road.
“I just didn’t think she was mature enough,” Ms Baigent said.
Earlier, the court heard evidence that the motel’s cook, Bob Lee, had claimed Ms Baigent killed Ms Hill after she discovered she was having an affair with Mr Baigent.
Mr Lee, who died a few months later in October 1991, told a friend, Tony Bento, that he and Mr Baigent had arrived home from hunting to discover Ms Baigent “distressed” and “hysterical”.
Mr Lee claimed he moved Ms Hill onto the side of the road while she was unconscious and visited her in hospital to see if she had woken up, Mr Bento’s wife, Angela Bento said.
But Debra Carley, who was also working at the motel that night, told the court those claims were “ridiculous”.
“She wasn’t hysterical about anything,” Ms Carley said of Ms Baigent.
The inquest into the death of Ms Hill was suspended in Tamworth in May after the court was told new evidence had come to light.
It will continue before Deputy State Coroner Sharon Freund on Wednesday.
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