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Mark Russell

Hitman and getaway driver jailed over grandma's murder

A father of nine has been jailed for 32 years for murdering a grandmother at her Newcastle home. (Mark Russell/AAP PHOTOS)

A hitman who shot dead a grandmother as she answered her front door as a favour to his drug dealer boss has been jailed for 32 years.

Newcastle Supreme Court Justice Peter Hamill on Friday described the shooting of Stacey Klimovitch at her home as a "premeditated assassination".

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