Accused murderer David Eastman visited a brothel on the night Assistant Australian Federal Police Commissioner Colin Winchester was killed, according to a woman who was working that night.
The former Canberra sex worker told the trial of Mr Eastman that he visited her at Touch Of Class in Fyshwick late in the evening of January 10, 1989.
Mr Eastman is on trial in the ACT Supreme Court accused of shooting Mr Winchester in his neighbour's driveway just after 9:00pm that night.
Giving evidence by video link, the woman told the court she had heard about the shooting as she returned from a booking in Queanbeyan earlier in the evening.
"I heard on the news that Commissioner Winchester had been killed," she said.
The woman told the court she got back to Fyshwick some time after 11:00pm and Mr Eastman paid $70 for a half-hour session.
She said he was most likely there for about 45 minutes, before she showed him out.
Under cross-examination from Mr Eastman's barrister, George Georgiou, she agreed his demeanour was quite normal and that he did not appear agitated, stressed or nervous.
She said the pair did not discuss the shooting.
The woman said she had seen Mr Eastman before when he had come to the brothel on Christmas Eve, just over two weeks earlier.
"Mr Eastman came into the premises to … preview the girls and then left," she said.
Prosecutor Murugan Thangaraj quizzed the woman about a photo board she had been shown in the days after the killing.
"Did you identify anyone on that photo board?" Mr Murugan asked.
"Yes I did … it was number nine," she said.
The court heard Mr Eastman was number nine on the board.
