Anthony Nugent sold 'fake gun' night before he was shot dead

Police at Station Street, Waratah last year, where Mohd Azlan Latham Asna was arrested and later charged with murder and inset a picture of victim Anthony Nugent. Picture by Simone De Peak

UNDER the cover of darkness in the car park of Charlestown swimming pool, Anthony Nugent was waiting to meet with a group of men who wanted to buy a gun.

It was September 5, 2022, and 24 hours later, Nugent, a petty crook well-known in Hamilton South, would be dead, shot in the chest at close range after answering the front door of a unit in Fowler Street.