'I'm sorry': Shaun Johnson admits to killing Steven O'Brien at Boxing Day backyard BBQ

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October 20 2021 - 5:30am
CRIME SCENE: Specialist police examine Shaun Garry Johnson's car outside the home where Steven O'Brien was stabbed on Boxing Day, 2019. Johnson faced the first day of a judge-alone trial on Tuesday. Picture: Marina Neil
CRIME SCENE: Specialist police examine Shaun Garry Johnson's car outside the home where Steven O'Brien was stabbed on Boxing Day, 2019. Johnson faced the first day of a judge-alone trial on Tuesday. Picture: Marina Neil

IT was late on the night of Boxing Day 2019 and most of those who had gathered for a BBQ in a backyard at Mayfield had gone off to bed.

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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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