Tags: Criminal.
Phuong Canh Ngo (Vietnamese: Ngô Cảnh Phương) (born 1958) was convicted of ordering the killing of Australian MP John Newman on 5 September 1994 a crime which has been described as Australia’s first political assassination (though not its first murder of a parliamentarian: in 1921 another Labor MP in the NSW Legislative Assembly Percy Brookfield had been slain in Riverton north of Adelaide by a psychotic emigre).