'I'll sort it out': pair get time served after drug dealer bashed, unexpectedly shot at Aberglasslyn

Police examining the scene of a shooting outside a home in Golden Whistler Avenue at Aberglasslyn in March last year. On Friday, Dane Simms and Jak Farmer were sentenced to time served. Picture by Max Mason-Hubers

TWO men who bashed Scott Papworth outside his Aberglasslyn home before he was unexpectedly shot by a third man have been sentenced to time served in Newcastle District Court.

Mr Papworth was shot in the stomach, the bullet shattering in his abdomen and nearly claiming his life, during a brutal attack outside his home in Golden Whistler Avenue about 9.40pm on March 9 last year.