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Tom Wark

Police under fire after murderer let loose for 20 years

The body of murder victim Jason Palmer was found in a Sydney river. (HANDOUT/New South Wales Police Force)

A man who stabbed his romantic rival to death genuinely believed he got away with murder for two decades after police inaction, a judge has found.

Gofal Baziad was sentenced to a maximum of 24 years in prison on Monday after being found guilty by a jury in May of the 2004 murder of Jason Palmer, his former friend and the ex-husband of his love interest.

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