
A JURY has retired to begin determining the fate of two men accused of murdering David King at Salt Ash in what prosecutors allege was a "drug rip gone wrong".
Elijah Cage and Max Lowcock have spent the past six weeks on trial in Newcastle Supreme Court accused of murdering Mr King, who was shot in the back of the head with a shotgun while allegedly trying to flee a robbery in Hideaway Drive on August 29, 2021.