2024-12-20
'Beggars belief': Assassin gets life for gunning down grandad on doorstep of mother's home
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Not guilty
Outcome: Photo: Collins) A violent criminal who "assassinated" a grandfather by emptying "the contents of a pistol" into him when he answered the front door at his mother's home and later perjured himself at trial has been sentenced to life in prison. That sentence expired in June, Det Sgt McDermott said, but Crawford remained in custody, having been arrested in relation to this offence in October 2020.