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MAN ADMITS TO CAUSING BROTHER’S DEATH IN CRASH

A Hunter Valley man has admitted to causing the death of his brother in a car crash last year.

Gerard Brennan was due to stand trial in Newcastle District Court, but instead pleaded guilty today to charges of dangerous and negligent driving occasioning death.

The 33-year-old lost control of his ute at East Gresford last July – the crash, claiming the life of his older brother Damian.

Gerard will be sentenced in April.

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Tyson Cottrill

Tyson Cottrill is a senior reporter and newsreader for Nine NBN News, based in Newcastle. As the Chief Court Reporter, Tyson has covered some of the biggest court cases from across the Hunter and northern New South Wales. Tyson started with the Nine Network in 2007 and has worked in newsrooms in Sydney, the Gold Coast, and Brisbane. A proud Novocastrian, Tyson has spent the majority of his journalism career reporting on the stories that matter in his hometown. Tyson has a Bachelor of Communications from Charles Sturt University.

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