A bikie associate has told an inquest into the suspected death of a woman in Kalgoorlie 25 years ago he saw her on a motorbike with a notorious member of a rival gang the day she disappeared. The inquiry into the disappearance of Lisa Govan has now been adjourned, after police were unable to track down two other witnesses considered central to the hearing.
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00:00Lisa Govan's family hoped this week would provide answers about what happened to their
00:06daughter 25 years ago, but the inquest has been adjourned.
00:10Well I'm pleased with that because it gives them plenty of time to sort things out and
00:16get things together and everything, so I'm happy with that.
00:19Ms Govan was seen early on October 8th 1999 inside Kalgoorlie's Safari nightclub, then
00:26in a laneway with two members of outlaw motorcycle gang the club Darrow's.
00:30Her last known sighting was outside the gang's clubhouse.
00:34Now former bikey associate Raymond Fisher has told the court he's positive he saw Ms
00:39Govan on the back of a motorbike an hour earlier with rival Gypsy Joker gang member Billy Grierson.
00:46Mr Grierson was shot dead in 2000 by a sniper at Orabanda near Kalgoorlie.
00:52The coroner suggested Mr Fisher, like other witnesses, was bound by a bikey code of silence
00:57which caused him to have different memories now, but Mr Fisher denied he was ever a patched
01:02member.
01:03I was spoken to by one of the members about being in the club, he told the court, and
01:08I said to him, no, I've got a family, I can't go putting all of my energy into the club.
01:13The court has heard from several witnesses this week, but two key people were missing.
01:18Police couldn't find bikey member Andrew Edhouse, one of the last people seen with
01:22Ms Govan, to serve a witness summons.
01:24They also couldn't locate her then boyfriend, Timothy Hamill.
01:28The coroner has now adjourned the inquest to a later date so that witness inquiries
01:33can be made.