The only person charged over an outback triple murder has been warned he is close to perjury after an inquest heard claims his father believed "the little bastard done it".

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Bruce John Preston faced intense questioning when he took the stand in a wheelchair in the reopened inquest into the 1978 murders of Karen Edwards, 23, Tim Thomson, 31, and Gordon Twaddle, 21, in outback Queensland.

The three friends were on a motorbike adventure, on their way home to Melbourne for the Christmas holidays.

The trio's decomposing bodies were discovered in bus

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