Text messages show home invasion planning before brutal double stabbing

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Updated April 21 2021 - 3:11pm, first published 2:00pm
The Hawks Nest home.
The Hawks Nest home.

THEY are the text messages that detectives allege show a man and woman were planning a violent home invasion at Hawks Nest that ended with one man being stabbed seven times in the back while his 78-year-old father was also stabbed when coming to his son's aid.

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Sam Rigney

Court Reporter

Sam began his Newcastle Herald career as a night police reporter in 2011. He is an experienced court reporter who has won two national court reporting awards, including the Kennedy Award for Outstanding Court Reporting for his coverage of the Hunter's worst serial rapist. Before working at the Herald, Sam was a sports journalist with the Maitland Mercury where he won awards for his coverage of the Newcastle Rugby League salary cap scandal. Sam is a Novocastrian born-and-bred.

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