1. Dad’s emotional warning as his 16-year-old daughter’s killer is sent to jail.
Jayde Kendall’s father Bruce speaks about his daughter after Brenden Bennetts was found guilty of her murder https://t.co/d4X10PVIPt pic.twitter.com/roBT4gZhA1
— ABC News Brisbane (@ABCNewsBrisbane) September 14, 2017
The father of murdered Queensland schoolgirl Jayde Kendall has warned the parole board to “think about your own children” when considering releasing her killer Brenden Bennetts in the future.
Bennetts, 21, was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday after a jury took just four hours to reach a guilty verdict for murder, AAP reports.
Jayde was last seen alive getting into Bennetts’ distinctive red Toyota Corolla after school about 3.20pm on Friday, August 14, 2015. And prosecutor Vicki Loury QC argued it was likely Jayde was dead not long after 4pm.
Loury said Bennetts was a “very good actor” and destroyed all things linking himself to Jayde, including her belongings and text messages showing the pair were meeting up for sexual activity. “He let her family search for her in the vain hope she was alive,” Loury told the court.
The trial heard Bennetts withdrew money from Jayde’s bank account and had searched YouTube for “best way to dispose of a body” the day before he killed her.
Justice Ann Lyons said Bennetts had betrayed the trust of an inexperienced girl, telling him: “Your ability to calmly detach from events around you is alarming and concerning as is your calculated web of lies and deception.”
Outside the court, Jayde’s father Bruce Morrissey sent a message to the parole board who may one day decide to release Bennetts back into the community.
Top Comments
the absolute minimum sentence for child murder, torture, rape, sexual assault, etc ... should be the difference between the youngest victims age and the life expectancy of the state or national, which ever is highest.
Agreed. And I think they should be put in general population, not protective custody. Why should they get protection when they have been incarcerated for preying on the vulnerable and innocent.
3. It absolutely disgusts me that Trent Thorburn will be out of gaol early next year - and no mention of him going on a sex offenders register either ...
Four years for raping a 12 year old is effing outrageous - let alone then being involved in her murder. It is unfathomable. Genuinely WTF is wrong with our sentencing system???
Agreed, absolutely appalling.