Man convicted for supplying weapon used in death of Rodney Falls

THE man who supplied a gun to Susan Falls which she used to shoot her husband Rodney has been sentenced to community service.

THE man who supplied a gun to Susan Falls which she used to shoot her husband Rodney has been sentenced to community service.

Christopher Anthony Cumming-Creed, 24, had pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court in Brisbane today to one count of unlawfully supplying a weapon.

The court was told Cumming-Creed supplied the weapon to former Sunshine Coast woman Susan Falls, 42, in May 2006.

Mrs Falls was yesterday found not guilty of murdering her abusive husband Rodney.

Cumming-Creed and two other men were found not guilty of being accessories after the fact to murder.

The court was told Mrs Falls made contact with Cumming-Creed asking him to buy a gun to use as protection against her violent husband.

Cumming-Creed acted as the middle man between Mrs Falls and the unknown people who supplied the gun.

Crown prosecutors said they accepted he did not know the true purpose Mrs Falls had for the gun and did not even know how to operate it.

Justice Applegarth told him he was reluctantly imposing a non-custodial sentence on him.

He sentenced him to 150 hours community service.