A YOUNG woman's screams of "Help me, oh God help me" nearly 40 years ago have haunted a man who ignored them.
The man and his wife have told a cold-case inquest into the deaths of two Sydney nurses in Queensland they saw two young women being manhandled by two men one night in September or October 1974.
One screamed for help but the couple didn't stop because they were frightened, the Toowoomba inquest was told.
Brian Britcher said he saw a green EJ Holden parked part way down the Toowoomba Range road.
Two girls and two men were nearby.
A blonde girl was being held around the neck by one man, while a dark-haired girl further down the road was being frogmarched towards the car by a second man.
Mr Britcher said the dark-haired girl was screaming "Help me, oh God help me", but he kept driving because his wife and young daughter were in the car.
"Had I have stopped I might've been able to help, but I thought of my wife and my daughter," he told the court, his voice breaking with emotion.
"I've lived with that for (more than) 30 years."
He said he didn't call police from a phone booth at nearby Withcott because he was afraid the men might drive past and recognise his car.
He didn't have a phone at home but contacted police within two days of the incident, which he said occurred either on the last weekend of September 1974 or the following weekend.
His wife Valma, who also gave evidence, said police told the couple to go home and forget about it because no one had been reported missing.
They contacted police again when the bodies of the two Sydney women were found in 1976 but no statement was taken.
It wasn't until 1987 that police called them and they were shown photos of the two women.
Ms Britcher said she was positive they were the women she had seen.
The inquest continues.
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