Bruce John Preston was charged with three murders in 2019, then the charges were withdrawn in 2023. Photo: Darren England/AAP PHOTOS

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

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