Stockton hitman wanted guarantee he would 'do no more than 15 years'

Stacey Klimovitch was shot in the chest with a shotgun when she answered her front door in Queen Street, Stockton in June, 2021. Jason Hawkins (top right) was the gunman, while Stephen Garland (bottom right) drove the getaway car.

DETECTIVES investigating the murder of Stockton grandmother Stacey Klimovitch were speaking to the suspected hitman in the cells at Queanbeyan police station when he said something interesting.

It was November 30, 2021 and Jason Paul Hawkins had just been charged with murder over the execution-style killing and handed a police fact sheet that named him as the hired gunman who shot Mrs Klimovitch dead at her front door in Queen Street some five months earlier.