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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Gabriel Fowler

Lake Macquarie shooting driver flees into the ocean at Merewether

DRIVER TURNS TO WATER: Police waited on Merewether Beach to arrest a man involved in a police pursuit who had attempted to swim away after fleeing the car which he crashed into a gutter. The 20-year-old gave up, swam back to shore, and was jailed shortly afterwards.

JEALOUSY over an ex-girlfriend which exploded into gunfire; landed the shooter in hospital and forced his driver out to sea has put three co-offenders behind bars for up to five years.

The shooter was arrested in John Hunter Hospital, bleeding profusely after impaling himself on a broken glass door at Redhead Surf Club following a failed break and enter.

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