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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Sam Rigney

'Cowardly act': tip murderer jailed for running down defenceless rival

Specialist police at Cessnock Waste Management Centre in July, 2020. Adam Andrew Bidner was on Thursday jailed for a maximum of 24 years and eight months for murdering Shane Mears.

A MAN who used his two-tonne four-wheel-drive as a weapon and reversed over a defenceless rival from behind in the Cessnock Waste Management Centre has been jailed until at least 2040.

Adam Andrew Bidner, 33, of Aberdare, used his Toyota Landcruiser to run down and drive over father-of-six Shane Mears while the pair were scavenging for scrap metal at the tip on the afternoon of July 5, 2020.

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