
STOPPED by police in a small coastal town on the mid-north coast, Jessica Wright was being asked if she knew where her boyfriend was.
Ten days earlier, on July 22, 2021, Wright had been "shocked" to hear a gunshot ring out in a unit in Darby Street, Cooks Hill and walked into the loungeroom to see her boyfriend of three months, Michael Rae, had shot 40-year-old Wesley Prentice in the chest during an argument over a debt.