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AC/DC - Drummer Charged With Attempting To Procure Murder


Things aren't going well for AC/DC lately. Recently, their founding guitarist Malcolm Young left the band after his family announced he was suffering from dementia. Now drummer Phil Rudd has been charged with attempting to procure murder of two men in New Zealand. He has appeared in New Zealand's Tauranga District Court where he was charged with the attempted murder as well as drug charges and was subsequently released on bail. The identities of the intended victims and potential hitman have been suppressed by the judge.

Not too long ago, As I Lay Dying frontman Tim Lambesis has been sentenced to six years in prison in a San Diego Superior Courtroom for attempting to hire a hitman to kill his wife.



Photo credit: Radio New Zealand/Natalie Mankelow


The 60-year-old Phil Rudd was also charged with threatening to kill and possession of methamphetamine and cannabis. Rudd was arrested at his Tauranga home and appeared in Tauranga District Court. Under New Zealand law, attempting "to procure any person to murder any other person" is punishable by up to 10 years in jail.

He has been bailed to his home until his next court appearance on November 27th. Australian-born Rudd has lived in New Zealand since the 1980s and owns restaurant Phil's Place in Tauranga.

Rudd was a notable absentee from AC/DC's recent promotional material in the lead-up to the release of the band's first album in six years, Rock Or Bust. The first image released to promote the album did not feature Rudd and he was absent from video shoots as well. Lead singer Brian Johnson reportedly told fans Rudd was not at one of the video shoots because of a "family emergency".



Photo courtesy of SunLive.co.nz


[Also thanks to Bad English for sending in this news!]


Source: smh.com.au
Band profile: AC/DC
Posted: 06.11.2014 by deadone


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06.11.2014 - 13:24
MrClansman1

''threatening to kill and possession of methamphetamine and cannabis''... Maybe he tried to kill somebody, who didn't pay him for cannabis and methamphetamine dose
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06.11.2014 - 13:35
Ilham
Giant robot
Shame. What is this world coming to.





Nobody gets their own hands dirty anymore.
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06.11.2014 - 13:38
BitterCOld
The Ancient One
Wonder if he called 36 24 36?
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06.11.2014 - 13:43
BloodTears
ANA-thema
Written by BitterCOld on 06.11.2014 at 13:38

Wonder if he called 36 24 36?


lol So many AC/DC songs come to mind, mostly Jailbreak.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29

Like you could kiss my ass.


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06.11.2014 - 14:10
Mehdi Taba
Mehdi Taba
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06.11.2014 - 14:25
Electes

Written by Ilham on 06.11.2014 at 13:35

Shame. What is this world coming to.


It cannot come to be what it already was.
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06.11.2014 - 15:28
Ilham
Giant robot
Written by Electes on 06.11.2014 at 14:25

It cannot come to be what it already was.

I was joking.
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06.11.2014 - 16:52
WorpeX
Made of Metal
I like AC/DC but they really should just call it quits at this point. AC/DC without Angus Young and Phil Rudd can't be called the same band.
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06.11.2014 - 17:00
Antidote

Written by WorpeX on 06.11.2014 at 16:52

I like AC/DC but they really should just call it quits at this point. AC/DC without Angus Young and Phil Rudd can't be called the same band.


You mean Malcolm...
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06.11.2014 - 19:13
Big-Al

Aussie police are not far off 40 years too slow.... "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap". ...Or did someone just read into the lyrics a little too much, a few beers too many?

Even if it's true, at least he's not another old BBC celebrity being done for Pedobear approved sexual assaults from back in the 80's!
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07.11.2014 - 07:12
no one
Account deleted
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07.11.2014 - 16:05
Auntie Sahar
Drone Empress
Dirty deeds... done dirt cheap?
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