Letters to the editor August 16 2019

August 16 2019 - 1:00am
LINE OF DUTY: Sergeant Keith Haydon was shot and killed at Mount Sugarloaf in 1980. Berwyn Rees, who was also convicted of two other killings, has been granted parole.
LINE OF DUTY: Sergeant Keith Haydon was shot and killed at Mount Sugarloaf in 1980. Berwyn Rees, who was also convicted of two other killings, has been granted parole.

SO the State Parole Authority will allow Berwyn Rees to leave prison ('Killer blow', Newcastle Herald, 9/8). For those too young to remember, during a 1977 robbery at a gun shop in Bondi, Rees ordered the shop manager and a customer, Raymond James and Christopher Greenfield, to lay face down on the floor and then shot them both in the back of the head.

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