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Tara Cosoleto

Shorter jail term set for drug kingpin Tony Mokbel

Melbourne drug kingpin Tony Mokbel will serve a shorter jail term because of injuries he sustained during a prison attack.

Mokbel put forward a bid for re-sentencing in Victoria's Court of Appeal after one of his previous drug convictions was quashed due to the Lawyer X scandal.

Justice Karin Emerton on Tuesday varied the 30-year jail term handed to Mokbel in 2012 and he was instead sentenced to 26 years behind bars with a non-parole period of 20 years.

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