A VIOLENT career criminal who was acquitted of shooting a man in the buttocks at Muswellbrook was the masked figure who fired several rounds into the front door of a home at Raymond Terrace while a woman cowered inside.
Daniel Paul Bell, now 44, appeared in Newcastle Local Court on Wednesday via audio visual link from Long Bay Prison Hospital where he pleaded guilty to three firearm offences, including firing a gun into a house with disregard for safety.