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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Sam Rigney

Accused gunman acquitted of shooting man in the neck

ANGUS Osborne has been acquitted of shooting a man in the neck during a minor dispute outside a house at Waratah West last year, despite the victim identifying him as the gunman.

A jury took about 90 minutes on Thursday to reject the evidence of the 36-year-old who said he saw Osborne, now 22, holding a gun after he was shot in the driveway of his home in Cooksey Close on January 24.

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