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Subscriber only A $10,000 meth deal gone wrong was allegedly behind the killing of an Oakey man in the car park of the Porter Plainlands Hotel, an Ipswich court has heard. A pathologist told a committal hearing on Wednesday that the likely cause of death for 53-year-old Paul Rock was multiple stab wounds. Seated in the dock of Ipswich Magistrates Court, Mr Rock s accused killers Beau Andrew John Smith, 28, and Kye Enright, 22, sat silently during the two-hour hearing as their legal defence counsel cross-examined four witnesses. Smith and Enright are each charged with the murder of Paul Rock at Plainlands on July 1, 2019; unlawful use of a motor vehicle without authority to commit the offence of murder; unlawful supply of an illegal drug GBH (gamma hydroxybutyrate); and robbery in company/armed with a knife.