Mr Yovich has also mentioned a pair of Telstra overalls and a Telstra white polo shirt were compared to the Macro fibres recovered and no matches were detected.

Mr Yovich has now moved onto asking Mr Powell about the amount of fibres Jane and Ciara could have had transferred to them at the Continental Hotel on the nights they vanished.

Mr Yovich: If The Conti was very crowded on each of the nights, such as people had to shoulder their way through the crowds and so on, would close contact with such people be a very good environment for the transfer of fibres?

Mr Powell: Yes.

Mr Yovich is now asking about Ciara's jacket, which an earlier witness in this trial testified she threw on the floor of the bar before he picked it up and gave it back to her.

Mr Yovich has asked if foreign fibres from the carpet could have transferred to the jacket, which then could have transferred to Ciara. Mr Powell has said it is possible.

The jacket Ciara was wearing on the night she disappeared has never been found.

She was last seen by witnesses with it tied around her waist as she left the bar looking for a taxi.

Carpet samples from The Continental Hotel were taken and tested by the ChemCentre and did not match any of the fibres recovered from the victims.

Mr Yovich has completed his cross-examination of Mr Powell.

Mr Powell has now completed his evidence.

Out of the roughly 200 witness called in this trial so far, he has spent the most time in the witness box, being nine days.