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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Sam Rigney

'Unbelievable': prosecution rubbish firearm claim as driver acquitted of murder

From left, alleged murder victim David King, Elijah Cage and Tyson Stamp ... Cage has pleaded not guilty to murdering King at Salt Ash in 2021. Stamp was acquitted of murder on Monday.

THE suggestion that the shotgun used to kill David King during an alleged "drug rip gone wrong" at Salt Ash in 2021 was brought to the scene by the 45-year-old ice dealer and not the men accused of robbing and murdering him is "completely unbelievable" and not supported by any of the objective evidence, a jury has been told.

Mr King, a mid-level methamphetamine dealer from Tanilba Bay, was killed when he was shot once at close range in the back of the head with a shortened shotgun while allegedly trying to escape being robbed in Hideaway Drive on August 29, 2021.

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