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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Sam Rigney

Armed robbery planners guilty of murdering drug dealer

From left, alleged murder victim David King, Elijah Cage and Tyson Stamp ... Cage had pleaded not guilty to murdering King at Salt Ash in 2021. Stamp was acquitted of murder earlier this month.

THEY planned a daylight drug rip and when ice dealer David King tried desperately to escape, accelerating down a quiet suburban street at Salt Ash, they shot him in the head at close range.

And on Tuesday afternoon, Elijah Cage and Max Lowcock were found guilty of murdering Mr King, a jury satisfied the pair had planned the robbery and brought the gun to the drug deal before Mr King was fatally shot.

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