A jury took just three hours this aftenoon to find Senior Constable Keith Abbott not guilty of the murder of Waitara
resident Steven Wallace.
Abbott shot Wallace in the early hours of April 30th 2000. The jury accepted that in doing so he acted in self defence.
Alastair Thompson
Scoop Publisher
Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the
media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.