Shot dead: Michael McGurk. In a dramatic development in the murder case of slain businessman Michael McGurk, the police have nominated a 23-year-old man as the person who fired the fatal shot. Christopher Estephan, who was 19 on the night Mr McGurk was murdered outside his house in 2009, is named as the murderer in a police statement of facts tendered to a Sydney Court late on Tuesday afternoon. The police statement was tendered as part of a guilty plea by Haissam Safetli, 47, who has pleaded guilty to the murder of Mr McGurk and also to taking part in the subsequent stalking and intimidation of Mr McGurk's widow, Kimberley, Central Local Court has heard. Maintains his innocence:...
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