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Attack on Bobby Medcraft in 2020 had 'element of vigilante justice', court told

The prosecutor in the case of four people found guilty of the manslaughter of a north-west Tasmanian man has told the Launceston Supreme Court there was an element of "vigilante justice" in how the man was attacked.

Bobby Medcraft, 23, died following a March 2020 altercation in a Burnie street where he was bashed repeatedly and cut across the knee from behind with a sword.

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