Previously unseen CCTV footage has been uncovered showing Jill Meagher's tragic last moments.
ROLLING COVERAGE: JILL Meagher's accused killer pleads not guilty to her murder as new footage appears of her last steps.
6.30pm: New footage of Jill Meagher's last moments have been caught on CCTV. We will be publishing a video shortly.
4.35pm: Adrian Ernest Bayley has been committed to stand trial in the Supreme Court for the alleged murder and rape of Jill Meagher.
Bayley, 41, stood in a protective dock at Melbourne Magistrates' Court this afternoon and pleaded not guilty to the single count of murder and two of the three counts of rape he was facing.
He pleaded guilty to one charge of rape.
A distressed Tom Meagher stormed out of the courtroom after Bayley announced his pleas.
Bayley will appear in the Supreme Court for a directions hearing on March 25.
New footage has emerged of Jill Meagher's tragic last moments. Picture: supplied. Video will appear shortly.
3.30pm: The hearing has been adjourned while the legal parties discuss what material will be released to the media from the prosecution brief of evidence.
Earlier the court heard witnesses tells of hearing yelling at about the time of Jill's death, as after hearing the accused Adrian Ernest Bayley had already admitted raping and strangling her.
Defence barrister Helen Spowart is currently seeking instructions from Bayley in the cells about the release of material.
The last witness, Sen-Det Benjamin Leonard, of the Homicide Squad, has been cross examined.
Bayley has not yet been asked for a plea in relation to the four charges he is facing.
Jill strangled with 'sustained force'
The man accused of raping and murdering Jill Meagher will contest the charges at a committal hearing today.
1.05pm: Ms Meagher was strangled with sustained force, an expert has found.
Pathologist Dr Matthew Lynch said Ms Meagher was found lying clothed and on her left side.
He said he discovered haemorrhages and bruising on Ms Meagher's neck along with bleeding in neck muscles and fractures to her larynx.
Dr Lynch said such injuries suggested manual compression involving sustained force.
11.53am: Witness Yuxiang He tells court he heard a woman say "Get out of there" in a sharp loud voice several times.
The husband of earlier witness Sophie Qui, said he thought the voice could have been an argument coming from another building.
Mr He said he thought the voice sounded like that of a drunk woman.
He said he thought she may have sworn as well.
Mr He said he heard a noise like a door slamming before the woman repeated, "Get out of there."
He said it did not sound like a car door.
11.30am: Ms Meagher's accused rapist and murderer had admitted raping and strangling the ABC employee before taking police to her body, the court was told today.
Witnesses heard yelling before alleged murder
11:10am: A woman who lives above the Hope St laneway in Melbourne's inner-suburb Brunswick where Jill Meagher was raped and strangled, heard a woman yell: "Get out of there!" several times at about 1.45am on the morning of the killing, a court has heard.
Tom Meagher arrives at the Melbourne Magistrates' Court for the Adrian Bayley committal hearing. Picture: Tauber Andrew
Witness Sophia Qui - the wife of Yuxiang He - told Melbourne Magistrates' Court she was lying in bed watching a foreign news program when she heard the female voice.
Under cross examination by defence counsel Helen Spowart, Ms Qui said the voice sounded very loud for that time of the morning.
The witness told the court she peered out her bedroom window and did not see anything, or hear a man's voice.
Ms Qui said she heard the woman's voice again.
"It repeated a few times," she said.
She said she also heard footsteps.
Adrian Bayley has pleaded not guilty to murdering Jill Meagher. Picture: Facebook
After about ten minutes everything fell silent again, the court was told.
Ms Qui said she did not hear the woman's voice again.
The court heard Ms Qui got back into bed and spoke with her husband, who had also heard something.
When asked if she and her husband had assumed the woman may have been having sex, Ms Qui replied: "We were just joking."
Ms Spowart asked Ms Qui why she believed the woman may have been drunk.
She replied: "When she said 'Get out of here,' the voice (was) not clear. It (was) like a prolonged kind of voice."
Jill's husband, family witness court appearance
Jill Meagher and husband Tom, pictured before her tragic death. Picture: supplied.
10.20am: Bayley, dressed in black, sat in the dock today behind protective glass and flanked by three guards.
In the front row next to detectives sat Ms Meagher's husband Tom, her brother Michael McKeon and her mother Edith and father George.
Mr Meagher also left the courtroom early during proceedings.
Accused went home for shovel, court told
10.11am: JILL Meagher's alleged killer dragged her into a laneway before repeatedly raping then strangling her, the Melbourne Magistrates' Court heard.
Adrian Ernest Bayley accosted Jill Meagher and dragged her into a Brunswick laneway where he raped her three times and strangled her, the court heard.
Bayley killed Ms Meagher as she was the only witness to the crime, Chief Crown prosecutor Gavin Silbert, SC, said in a short opening at the start of Bayley's committal hearing.
Adrian Bayley as he was taken into custody in the back of a police car. Picture: Stephen Harman
Mr Silbert told Magistrate Felicity Broughton that Ms Meagher had left the Etiquette Bar about 1.30am on September 22 and was "accosted" at 1.38am.
It was alleged Bayley dragged Ms Meagher into the laneway and raped her three times before strangling her.
Mr Silbert said Bayley left Ms Meagher's body in the lane way and returned home where he collected a shovel and returned in his car about 4.20am.
He put Ms Meagher's body in the boot and drove her to Blackhill Rd in Gisborne South where he buried her, the court was told.
After his arrest, Bayley made admissions to raping and strangling Ms Meagher and directed police to the body, Mr Silbert said.
The committal continues.
Hearing begins into Jill murder, rape case
9.35am: Jill Meagher's husband Tom and her mother Edith McKeon are among those who have shown up at court to witness the committal hearing.
The hearing, set to last two days, is about to begin at the Melbourne Magistrates' Court.
Adrian Ernest Bayley, 41, will not be required to enter a plea until the end of the hearing.
Bayley is accused of raping Ms Meagher, 29, three times and killing her in a Brunswick laneway off Hope St on September 22.
He was initially charged with Ms Meagher's murder and one count of rape, but police added two more rape charges last week.
Defence barrister Helen Spowart had requested a four-week adjournment of the hearing to better prepare the case after the addition of the two extra counts of rape.
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The defence also said they wanted to seek the opinion of independent DNA and textile experts before questioning police forensic witnesses.
But Magistrate Felicity Broughton refused the adjournment.
Six witnesses are listed to be called.
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