Prosecutors have been unable to prove the death of a former bikie gang boss due to a lethal injection of cocaine and heroin was murder.
A close friend of Ricky Ciano and fellow ex-Rebels bikie, Jamie Tozer, pleaded guilty to manslaughter on Wednesday after a court accepted there was not enough evidence to prove the drugs were administered without consent.
Tozer had been due to face a murder trial in the NSW Supreme Court.
Ciano joined the Rebels in 2001 when he was 20 years old and went on to become president of the Liverpool chapter, in southwest Sydney.
He left the group in 2015 and several close supporters, including Tozer, went with him.
The men, along with Tozer’s half-brother Daniel Bushell, travelled to a property in Oberon, in the NSW Central Tablelands, in February 2017 with a plan to manufacture drugs.
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