19 Dec 2019
Life imprisonment is appropriate and not manifestly unjust in this case; minimum non-parole period set at 11 years based on lack of premeditation (single shot), significant aggravation from post-offence conduct including concealment of the body and obstruction/false information during a major search, and mitigation for trial delay and restrictive bail measures which largely offset each other.
5 Oct 2018
The Judge held the murder did not quite meet the statutory 'especially bad' threshold for a 17-year minimum, but the cumulative aggravating features—execution-style fatal shots to the back of an already injured victim, callous disposal and concealment of the body, destruction of evidence, threats to a witness, use of an automatic weapon and a recent serious firearms offending—justified a substantial uplift from the 10-year floor to a starting point of 15.5 years; after a 6-month reduction for segregation hardship the minimum non-parole period was fixed at 15 years, to be concurrent with the e…
15 Feb 2016
The Court held s104 applied because the murder was committed to avoid detection of extensive thefts and was carried out with a high degree of callousness and breach of trust; those aggravating factors justified an uplift from the 17 year baseline to a 19 year minimum non‑parole period; life imprisonment imposed with parole eligibility after 19 years.