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Breakthrough after 20 years as man charged with shooting officer
Wednesday December 23, 2020
A man has been charged with two counts of attempted murder and armed robbery in a major breakthrough in the case of Queensland’s oldest unsolved police shooting.
A 49-year-old Brisbane man has been arrested over the shooting of Senior Constable Neill Scutts during a bank robbery in Logan in 1999.
He is due to face Brisbane Magistrates Court on Wednesday.
Police allege two men forced entry to the bank on March 24, 1999, before holding staff and customers at gunpoint.
Two police officers responded and within moments Sen Const Scutts was shot, sustaining a serious…
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