A violent career criminal and police killer has died in hospital of liver cancer.

Philip Graeme Abell was sentenced to life without parole, for the shooting murder of Gold Coast father-of-two and policeman Damien Leeding in 2011.

A violent career criminal and police killer has died in hospital of liver cancer.
Philip Graeme Abell was sentenced to life without parole, for the shooting murder of Gold Coast father-of-two and policeman Damien Leeding in 2011.

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