text: Australian hitman killed wrong victim. SYDNEY 1996-12-06 
   An Australian hitman who went to the wrong house and killed the wrong man was sentenced to 20 years jail on Friday. Paul Crofts, 33, and an accomplice were contracted to shoot a man, identified only as Tony, in the leg to punish him for his misconduct with a female friend of the contractor, the New South Wales Supreme Court was told. But in February 1993 Leszic Betcher, was shot and killed after answering a knock at the door of his Sydney home. " 
   The inference from all the material is that the marauders had come to the wrong house, " Judge Michael Grove said. In sentencing Crofts, who pleaded guilty, Grove took into account his " mildly retarded " intellectual state, which placed him in the lowest two percent of the population. Grove said Betcher was " not only the victim of a horrendous crime, but his death was brought about in circumstances of an equally ghastly error on the part of the prisoner and his accomplices ". The unnamed accomplice was earlier sentenced to 20 years in prison.
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