A MAN shot after "frantically" trying to stab police with a tactical shovel will be out of jail next year, as a judge found the officers' response was "reasonable and necessary" to defend themselves.
Aaron Barrie Searle, 47, had been inhaling 10 cans of deadly butane gas a day and was refusing to leave his ex-partner's unit at Mayfield when two police officers knocked on the door on the afternoon of February 15 last year.
