A murderer has been jailed for three decades after he shot a man and then chased him down while he was escaping to shoot him twice more in a “brutal and cold-blooded act”.
Eric James Forrest was found guilty of murdering David Collisson, 53, on a rural property near Mudgee, in central western NSW, in September 2023.
Now 35, he had photographed himself with a double-barrelled shotgun hours before he turned the loaded weapon on Collisson while they were standing on a secluded hill.
“You want to treat me like a f***ing gronk?” he asked.
The older man pleaded for his life, telling Forrest they were brothers and he loved him.
But the gunman disregarded the pleas and shot Collisson in the…