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DARK SECRETS: Mum this is it victim s dying words | Vintage Vibes

The parents of Byron Tonks have spoken at his murderer's sentence hearing in the Supreme Court. (Mark Russell/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

The last words a young man told his mother as he lay dying after being shot by a gunman who had sprayed more than 220 bullets in a NSW street was that he loved her.

An emotional Cindy Tonks told the Newcastle Supreme Court on Tuesday during a sentence hearing for the gunman, Bradley Jason Mark White, 42, how her son, Byron, knew his life was slipping away.

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