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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
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Wyong rampage shooter 'off his rocker', defence lawyer says

Byron Tonks, 20, was shot in the chest while sheltering inside a home at Wyong in March, 2020. Bradley Jason Mark White is on trial accused of murder.

A MAN accused of going on an hour-long shooting rampage at Wyong in 2020 during which he fired more than 220 rounds, including one that struck and killed 20-year-old Byron Tonks, should have been scheduled two weeks earlier when he told a psychiatrist he was thinking about killing his neighbours, a jury has been told.

Bradley Jason Mark White, 42, was acutely mentally unwell, needed to be medicated and should have been made an involuntary patient at a secure psychiatric facility, his barrister, Mark Hobart, SC, said during his closing address on Tuesday.

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