Former sawmill manager Neil Shum tells inquest Wayne Hilton confessed to killing nurses Lorraine Wilson and Wendy Evans Lorraine Wilson and Wendy Evans were brutally murdered near Murphys Creek in 1974. An inquest is being held into their deaths. Picture: Angelo Soulas Source: The Sunday Telegraph WAYNE "Boogie" Hilton liked a drink but his former employer told State Coroner Michael Barnes yesterday he was stone-cold sober when he confessed to murdering two women at Murphys Creek in 1974. Former Highfields sawmill manager Neil Shum said he was driving to pick up logs with Mr Hilton one day when the younger man confessed to killing Lorraine Wilson, 20, and Wendy Evans, 18, with his "brother." Mr Shum said Mr Hilton asked him for advice and he told him to "do the right thing" and hand himself in to police. For more Queensland news, click here "He was sober when he told me in the truck that morning," he reflected. He seemed to be worried and wondered what he should do. He said to me: 'I trust you'. I had a lot of time for him because he was a good worker. Rolling coverage of day 2: What the inquest heard Mr Shum gave a statement to police in 1989 in which he told them Mr Hilton confessed to picking up two nurses, "having a bit of trouble with them and ended up murdering them." Former sawmill manager Neil Shum outside court in Toowoomba during yesterday's hearig. PIC: Josh Woning Mr Shum said he'd heard Mr Hilton talk about the murdered women drunk at the pub from time to time but he "never paid much attention" because he had been drinking. Mr Hilton died in a car crash at Texas in the 1980s. The inquest heard chilling evidence from Allan John "Shorty" Laurie's younger brother Walter Laurie who said he watched his brother's friends having sex with two women at Murphys Creek when he was 10. But his evidence was disjointed and at times difficult to follow due to a brain injury he suffered in a car crash in 1991. Mr Laurie, now 51, said his brother Shorty, step-uncle Allan Neil "Ungie" Laurie, Wayne "Boogie" Hilton and a host of associates including Larry Charles, Terrance "Jimmy" O'Neill, Donnie Laurie and a man he referred to as "Kingsley" Hunt came to his parent's house in Toowoomba with the two women. He said Kingsley brought the girls up from Goondiwindi for a party and they drove down to Murphys Creek in two cars around sunset. Mr Laurie said his father drove him, his mother and his brother down to the party. His mother waited in the car while his father took him to a clearing and a bonfire where the men - including his brother Shorty - were "making love" to two women. He said one of the women, the taller of the two, yelled out "that's enough" and watched as another girl was "knocked or pushed" on to the ground by "Ungie" Laurie when she tried to get up. Mr Laurie told police in a statement taken in 2000 that he heard the women begging them to stop. Norma Sterling told the Toowoomba Magistrates Court yesterday she saw Ms Evans and Ms Wilson after one of them sought refuge in her laundry because she "wanted to get away from some people." The woman, who looked like Ms Wilson, told Mrs Sperling she was at a party but got into an argument. Mrs Sperling said the woman didn't want to call police. She said they'd probably find her anyway. We just stood there for quite a while looking at one another because I didn't know what to say," she said. Then she said 'right, I'd better go then' and left. Mrs Sperling heard a scream shortly afterwards and from a window in her house could see the woman struggling with a man who was trying to get her into the back seat of a car. "He was really struggling with her and he hit her across the face," she said. She said another man was wrestling with a second woman in the backseat of the car. But Mrs Sperling's husband told her "it was probably just a domestic" and warned her "don't get involved." In 1989 she gave a statement to police. Four others witnesses, including a couple, told the court they saw two women as they were either driving up or down the Toowoomba Range Rd around the time the nurses disappeared. The inquest continues today.