One of the last people to see Krystal Fraser alive has told a court he saw her get into a red station wagon on the night she disappeared.
Heavily pregnant and in Pyramid Hill, Victoria, for a birthday party, 23-year-old Krystal Fraser was with her friend Robert Glennie at his Albert Street home around 9pm on Saturday, June 20, 2009.
A coronial inquest in Melbourne has heard Ms Fraser, who had an intellectual disability, told Mr Glennie she was supplying cannabis, speed and pills to people in the small rural Victorian town and was paranoid and scared of the people she was working for.
Mr Glennie also told the court Ms Fraser said she owed people thousands of dollars.
Prompted by counsel assisting the coroner, Fiona Batten, Mr Glennie told the court that Ms Fraser liked to create drama in her life and that she was worried about her unpaid debts.
"I don't think she ever paid any of them, that's why they would come after her," Mr Glennie said.
"She said 'I've got to hide, they're after me' … 'they're after me, I haven't paid them'," he told the court.
New information comes to light
Mr Glennie has given two statements to police since the night when Ms Fraser went missing but only now has revealed new evidence.
He told the inquest on Wednesday morning that he saw Ms Fraser get into a red station wagon as she left his house on the night she disappeared.
Ms Fraser had an intellectual disability and was days away from giving birth when she discharged herself from Bendigo Hospital that morning, against medical advice.
She did not know who the father of her unborn baby was, but the inquest has heard from her parents Neil and Karen that their daughter told them one of three men — Peter 'PJ' Jenkinson, Tony Gatt or Gareth David — could be the father of the child.
Mr Glennie told the inquest that the child's father could be a policeman, while another potential was in Gunbower and another in Boort.
He told the court Ms Fraser had earlier arrived at his home in a panic, looking over her shoulder and telling him she needed to use the phone.
"She was erratic, all over the place. It was unbelievable, I'd never seen her like that. It was totally out of character," Mr Glennie told the court.
Mr Glennie said Ms Fraser tried to call a man called Bandy seven times, but he didn't answer.
Bandy was the nickname for a man named Allan Summers, who has since died.
Mr Glennie told the court Ms Fraser had left his house to walk across the street to her mother's house, but instead, he saw her get into a red station wagon after a man told her to "get in, get in".
He told the inquest he later saw the car burnt out in bushes.
When asked by Ms Batten why he did not mention the red station wagon before, Mr Glennie said police were part of the problem and that Ms Fraser did not trust the police.
He said she was worried her baby would be taken away from her because she was "smoking bongs".
Krystal fearful
Witness Nicholas Dingfelder told the inquest he got off a train in Pyramid Hill at the same time as Ms Fraser on the evening she disappeared, and when she saw a man walking along the tracks she said "I better go or he'll be angry", gesturing to the man.
"I noticed this guy walking along the train tracks, hands in his pockets, kicking rocks and knew then that they were obviously together. That's when she said she had to go," he said.
Mr Dingfelder told the inquest that the man appeared agitated and was "dressed too well in a jacket and dress shoes to be from Pyramid Hill".
"I can remember thinking he looked pretty fresh with a new haircut. He looked like a worker, like he had a bit of money. He looked like someone who had money, not from Pyramid Hill."
Another witness at the inquest, Jeff Osmond, told the court he was asked to be the godfather to Ms Fraser's baby, which she had named Ryan, but Mr Osmond declined.
Ms Fraser had lived at his house for about 12 months until the middle of 2008 when he said "he couldn't take it anymore" and cut contact with her.
He told the inquest he would drive Ms Fraser back to Pyramid Hill so she could visit Mr Jenkinson.
The inquest has heard that Victoria Police have named Mr Jenkinson as the primary suspect in its investigation into Ms Fraser's disappearance.
He is scheduled to appear before the inquest next week.
The inquest continues on Thursday.
