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A Supreme Court jury has ruled a man who fatally shot his son-in-law in Raywood in 2014 is guilty of his murder.
Prosecutors had alleged Maxwell John Pain, 55, killed 36-year-old David Paris on June 10, 2014, in the belief he was having an affair with Pain's wife, Tracy Bush.
On Friday jurors in his trial, who had been deliberating since Tuesday, returned a verdict of guilty.
During the trial the court heard Pain had a rifle and a shotgun in his ute as he drove from his Neilborough farm to the Raywood property owned by his wife’s daughter and Mr Paris, whom he texted, writing “I'm on my way Davey boy”.
When Pain arrived at the property, Mr Paris went outside and told him to "F--- off", before Pain shot his son-in-law once and drove away.
Ms Bush told the court Pain had threatened to “smash” her daughter Rebecca Lambert’s partner’s hands on June 6, four days prior to the shooting.
“Every time Dave and Rebecca come to the house or I seen them, I was having an affair,” she said.
“He said to me, ‘If I find out you and Dave are having an affair I'll smash his hands up’.”
Ms Bush described her relationship with Pain as “great to start with”, but said it changed “a couple of months” after they were married, when the accusations of infidelity began.
But Ms Bush told the court she and Pain “didn’t really speak” after the conversation on June 6, saying she viewed the marriage as “over” and went to stay with her daughter and son-in-law on the following Monday, June 9.
She said she was outside under the porch at her daughter’s house the next evening when Pain arrived.
“Rebecca just screamed to me, ‘Go inside, he's here’ and I said, ‘Who's here?’, she said, ‘Max is here’, so they made me get in the house real quick,” she said.
Ms Bush said it was then, after wedging herself between the kitchen door and a bench, she heard “the car running and a big bang”.
“Rebecca screamed out to me, she says, ‘Dave's been shot’,” she said.
Pain will return to court for sentencing at a later date.