Bar Beach police baseball bat attack: the unhinged and terrifying things said before an explosion of violence

By Sam Rigney
Updated September 23 2020 - 9:32pm, first published 3:00pm
CHAOTIC: John Peter Collins charges at police with a baseball bat and his tasered outside his Bar Beach Unit in December, 2019. Collins appeared in Newcastle Local Court on Wednesday and pleaded guilty to a string of offences.
CHAOTIC: John Peter Collins charges at police with a baseball bat and his tasered outside his Bar Beach Unit in December, 2019. Collins appeared in Newcastle Local Court on Wednesday and pleaded guilty to a string of offences.

PACING around outside his unit at Bar Beach on an evening in December last year, John Peter Collins gave an insight into his state of mind and the violence and chaotic scenes that were about to unfold.

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