Editing Phuong Ngo (section)

==Assassination of John Newman==
[[John Newman (Australian politician)|John Newman]], member of the [[New South Wales Legislative Assembly]], was shot dead on 5 September 1994. Within days, the leader of a gang, 19-year-old Tri Minh Tran, became the [[prime suspect]]. Ngo's conflict with Newman and his close ties to Tran led to widespread rumours in the community that he was involved which were repeated by the media. Ngo became the focus of police attention after one of Tran's relatives made a statement to police that he had rejected an offer of $10,000 from Ngo to kill Newman. The case against Ngo was weak and, after Ngo provided information to police that led to the arrest of the informant, the task force investigating the Newman murder was disbanded.<ref name="4corners">[http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/s72739.htm Cabramatta] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112045450/http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/s72739.htm |date=12 January 2012 }} [[Four Corners (Australian TV program)|Four Corners]] 8 April 1997</ref>

It was not the first murder of a parliamentarian. In 1921 another Labor MP in the NSW Legislative Assembly, [[Percy Brookfield]], was slain in [[Riverton, South Australia|Riverton]], by a psychotic man.