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Cheryl Goodenough

Man to face trial for 1999 police shooting

Senior Constable Neil Scutts was shot in his groin during a 1999 bank robbery. (AAP)

A two-time prison escapee who confessed to a bank robbery during which a police officer was shot more than two decades ago now says he could not be responsible as he was in custody.

But a prosecutor says if Shane O'Reilly Ryan is found to have been at a correctional centre on March 24, 1999, the Crown's case would be that he "found a way to escape from that prison, commit the robbery and get back inside that prison".

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