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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Sam Rigney

Mayfield murderer Zachary Dowling 'not at all remorseful' for choking elderly boyfriend

A REMORSELESS killer who forced his elderly and frail boyfriend to choke on his dentures during a bout of "rough sex" in a Mayfield boarding house has been jailed until at least 2039.

Zachary Joel Dowling, now 37, a quick-to-anger career criminal with a history of choking older men, was drunk and assaulting his "on-again, off again" boyfriend, 64-year-old Brian O'Sullivan, in his bedroom at the boarding house in Regent Street on the night of June 29, 2021.

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