Steven Samaras sentenced to 11 years' jail for manslaughter of fiancee Tamara Turner
Steven Samaras has been sentenced to 11 years' jail for the manslaughter of his fiancee Tamara Turner, who was abandoned with a gunshot wound to the abdomen in the Mildura Base Hospital in June 2016.
It heard Ms Turner's family was surprised about her decision to leave her home in the United States to move to Australia, and had limited contact with her after she flew to Melbourne in late 2015. Ms Turner had worked for a gun supplier in her home state of Missouri before she left, and had sent four weapons to Samaras via the post.
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