Alleged Stockton murder getaway driver felt 'betrayed' and 'set up', court told

Specialist police examining the crime scene at the front door of a home at Stockton where Stacey Klimovitch was shot and killed in June, 2021. Picture by Max Mason-Hubers

A MAN who claims he was "duped" into driving an alleged gunman to and from a house at Stockton on the night Stacey Klimovitch was shot dead told a friend he felt the mastermind "had betrayed him and set him up", a jury has heard.

Stephen John Garland, 65, has pleaded not guilty to murder and being an accessory after the fact to murder over the death of Mrs Klimovitch, who was shot once in the chest with a shotgun after she answered her front door in Queen Street about 8pm on June 9, 2021 in what prosecutors allege was a "targeted" and "premeditated" shooting.