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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Sam Rigney

Circus worker cleared over drunk roommate's one-punch death

A TRAVELLING carnival worker who pushed over his heavily intoxicated 65-year-old roommate, causing him to hit his head and be taken to hospital where he died 10 days later has avoided a jail term after prosecutors accepted he was not responsible for the man's death.

Robert Raymond Dennehy, now 51, spent nearly a year behind bars and another year subject to strict bail conditions after he was charged with the one-punch law of assault causing death and manslaughter over the death of Tony Williams in Kurri Kurri on October 6, 2021.

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