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Vassia Barba & Fiona Leishman

Elderly shooter handed LIFE sentence aged 71 after gunning down three at church potluck

A 71-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing three people at a church potluck dinner.

Robert Findlay Smith pleaded guilty to capital murder and waived his right to appeal after the "senseless, evil act of murder".

And to this day, no-one knows why the elderly man did what he did.

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