A mannequin has been lowered to the foot of the rocks at The Gap at Watsons Bay, where Sydney model Caroline Byrne was alleged thrown to her death by her then boyfriend Gordon Wood.
Wood, the one-time chauffeur to the late stockbroker Rene Rivkin, is due to stand trial on July 21 over Ms Byrne's death in June 1995.
The 24-year-old's body was found wedged between rocks out from the base of the cliff.
Justice Graham Barr, counsel for the defence, Winston Terracini, SC, senior Crown prosecutor Mark Tedeschi, QC, along with their legal teams, stood at the top of the cliff a little after 8am this morning to observe the proceedings.
The mannequin, encased in a large bright blue plastic bag, was lowered over the cliff by rope at about 8.20am.
The bag was then unwrapped by two police officers at the bottom of the cliff. The officers then opened the bag, reassembled the mannequin and positioned it between rocks at the bottom of the cliff. The mannequin was then wrapped up again.
The judge and lawyers were flanked by a large number of uniformed police and police rescue squad members, who were involved in abseiling the bag down the cliff. The rescue squad police were dressed in white overalls and had erected three blue ladders at the cliff's face to enable them to climb up and down The Gap.
The site was roped off to the public as the judge and lawyers viewed the scene.
Wood was recently granted legal aid to ensure that he can be adequately represented at trial, which may run for several months.