THE Sunshine Coast Daily newspaper is reporting that Justine Jones' killer on Wednesday received a 10-year prison sentence for her manslaughter after earlier being acquitted of murder.
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Supreme Court justice Peter Applegarth sentenced 30-year-old Richard Coburn to nine years jail for the manslaughter of Jones and 18 months jail for interfering with her corpse, the Daily has reported.
Those sentences will be cumulative so he will serve a total 10.5 years behind bars unless he is deemed eligible for parole earlier.
He has already served 1119 days, more than three years, in custody since his arrest.
The Daily reports that justice Applegarth said Coburn had showed no remorse for his actions and hoped, while in jail, he reflected on what he had done.
Coburn, 30, was acquitted of murder after a two-week trial in Brisbane Supreme Court.
Jones, 22, was killed in her Alexandra Headland unit on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland on the third State of Origin night in 2010.
She grew up in Narooma, worked at O’Briens Hotel and her mother Kathleen Jones was still living in town.
Justine is buried at the Narooma Cemetery.
Her sister Jackie Jones, through a victim impact statement read in Brisbane Supreme Court, said Coburn was a liar and she feared he would never be rehabilitated.
After two days of deliberating, a jury could not be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that Coburn intended to murder Ms Jones, 22, at her Alexandra Headland unit on the third State of Origin match in 2010.
They acquitted him of murder and instead found him guilty of manslaughter and dumping her body in a wheelie bin at a neighbouring property.
Justine's body was found eight days later at the Nambour rubbish tip. A compacting garbage truck horrifically crushed her body that a cause of death could never be determined.
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