Crispin Dye (left) with AC/DC star Malcolm Young.
The jeans and shirt were never sent for forensic analysis until several months ago,counsel assisting Peter Gray,SC,told the Special Commission of Inquiry into LGBTIQ hate crimes on Tuesday.
On February 14,the NSW Forensic and Analytical Science Service said it found two pieces of paper in the pocket of Dye’s denim shirt. One was a post-it note with a handwritten name and number on it,while the other had a bloodstain.
“Evidently,these pieces of paper had never previously been noticed,” Gray said.
“They were found folded in the front top left pocket of the exhibit,the shirt,and never separately catalogued. Obviously,the failure by the police up to now to find these pieces of paper is very unfortunate,to say the least.”
Crispin Dye,41,died in hospital on Christmas Day in 1993 after he was found with critical injuries in a Darlinghurst laneway.
Shortly after Dye was killed police identified a principal suspect,but there was insufficient evidence to tie that person to the murder. The coroner found in August 1995 that the musician died of the effects of a head injury inflicted by a person or persons unknown.
A second investigation in 1999 also did not result in any charges being laid. In 2014,police offered a $100,000 reward for information leading to Dye’s killer or killers.