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FORMER PRIEST DAVID O’HEARN ACQUITTED OF INDECENT ASSAULT

Former Hunter priest, David O’Hearn has been sensationally acquitted of nine-child sex offences following a four-hour judgement in Newcastle.

The 57-year-old was accused of assaulting a teenage boy, 25-years-ago at a Lake Macquarie school, but the judge found the alleged victim’s claims were unreliable.

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Tyson Cottrill

Tyson Cottrill is a senior reporter and newsreader for Nine NBN News, based in Newcastle. As the Chief Court Reporter, Tyson has covered some of the biggest court cases from across the Hunter and northern New South Wales. Tyson started with the Nine Network in 2007 and has worked in newsrooms in Sydney, the Gold Coast, and Brisbane. A proud Novocastrian, Tyson has spent the majority of his journalism career reporting on the stories that matter in his hometown. Tyson has a Bachelor of Communications from Charles Sturt University.

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