Acquitted of murder over shooting, Hawkins will be out in 2023

Updated January 12 2021 - 8:48pm, first published 5:00pm
TRAGIC: Specialist police examining the scene of the fatal shooting at Maryland on December 8, 2018 and, inset, victim Kenneth John Denniss.
TRAGIC: Specialist police examining the scene of the fatal shooting at Maryland on December 8, 2018 and, inset, victim Kenneth John Denniss.

DANIEL Mark Hawkins could be released from jail as early as 2023 after a jury acquitted him of murder over the shooting death of Kenneth John Denniss during a dispute over a stolen motorcycle at Maryland in 2018. Hawkins, 32, who was found guilty of manslaughter on the basis of excessive self-defence after an eight-week trial in Sydney Supreme Court, was late last month jailed for a maximum of seven years and six months, with a non-parole period of five years.

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