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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National

Former bikie who fled to New Zealand sentenced for DV assaults

Former bikie Harley Austin will not spend any more time behind bars after a long and convoluted criminal case.

A FORMER bikie who fled to New Zealand in the days after repeatedly assaulting a woman in 2017 and was then left languishing in jail for years awaiting extradition will not spend any more time behind bars.

Harley Austin, now 39, in April pleaded guilty to four counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm after prosecutors agreed to drop all charges relating to the shooting of another bikie at Waratah in June, 2017.

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