Former Border man Glen Roland Dunstall has been found guilty of the execution-style shooting of Sydney father John Gasovski at Jamberoo in 2014.
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John Gasovski’s body was found by a park ranger in Buderoo National Park on June 15. He had been shot in the head and his body dumped over the edge of a cliff.
An investigation into his death led police to charge interstate truckie and Wagga resident Dunstall with murder.
Dunstall, who has previously lived in Albury and Wodonga, denied the allegations and elected to take the case to trial in the NSW Supreme Court, sitting in Wollongong.
The jury listened to almost six weeks worth of evidence from dozens of witnesses before retiring to consider its verdict around midday on Tuesday. They returned a verdict of guilty on Wednesday morning.
Mr Gasovski’s family, who had attended every day of the trial, were not in court when the verdict was read out.
Jurors had been told a cash-strapped Mr Gasovski had been working as a delivery driver for one of Dunstall’s criminal associates in Sydney when he was killed.
The court heard Dunstall had earlier agreed to introduce that associate to a friend in Canberra who could sell him 200 pounds of cannabis on credit.
Dunstall also asked the associate to supply him with a gun, saying he wanted to “scare” another dealer who had previously sold him dodgy drugs. Dunstall received the gun on May 5.
The Crown said Mr Gasovski and a second man made two trips to Wagga to make $45,000 in down-payments to Dunstall for the cannabis.
However, the Crown case was that there was never any cannabis for sale and the deal was an elaborate scam cooked up by Dunstall to defraud the associate.
Dunstall and Mr Gasovski had been due to meet at Sutton Forrest on June 9 so they could travel to Canberra together to collect the cannabis. However, the pair instead met at Pheasants Nest before driving to the Jamberoo lookout where Dunstall fatally shot Mr Gasovski.
Dunstall was arrested on May 12, 2015.
He denied the killing, telling police Mr Gasovski was with two men of Islander appearance when he met him at Sutton Forrest on June 9. He said left with the men in a southbound direction on the highway.
Dunstall will face sentencing in Sydney in November.
