Four plead guilty over shooting MP’s home

Four men have pleaded guilty to a drive-by shooting that sprayed a Victorian MP’s home with bullets as she slept inside.

The Berwick home of Liberal MP for Mordialloc, Lorraine Wreford, was shot at several times as she and two other occupants slept in the early hours of July 5 last year.

Police said her eldest son Adrian had been the target of the shooting.

The alleged gunman, Mark Ahern, 28, and three other men who were in the car at the time, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to reckless conduct endangering serious injury, before the matter proceeded to a committal hearing.

Their guilty pleas in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court, in return for having several other charges withdrawn, spared Ms Wreford and her son from giving evidence on Wednesday.

Steven Spicak, 32, Michael Taddeo, 19, and Aaron Szarka, 22, along with Ahern, also pleaded guilty to using methamphetamines.

Ahern and Spicak pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm, while Szarka admitted to possessing ammunition.

At least eight shots were fired at the home, hitting the front windows, front door and a car parked in the driveway, police previously told the court.

One of the bullets went through a window, a desk chair before lodging in a wall behind a computer.

The court was previously told the incident had left Ms Wreford in fear of staying at her home.

A police summary said she had moved temporarily to a hotel and had trouble sleeping.

Magistrate Luisa Bazzani continued bail for all four men and ordered they reappear in court for plea hearings on September 10 and 11.

The fifth co-accused, Kiera McQuinn, 18, who was also in the car, is facing six charges which will be contested at a hearing on June 6.

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