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Zhang Yu killers sentenced
UPDATE: A YOUNG Hobart man who repeatedly beat and sexually assaulted a Chinese woman before killing her will spend at least 25 years behind bars.
Stavros Papadopoulos, 22, was sentenced to life in prison today for the brutal and prolonged murder of University of Tasmania accounting student Zhang Yu.
Justice David Porter imposed a non-parole period of 25 years.
His accomplice, Daniel Jo Williams, also 22, could be free after five years.
He was sentenced to 10 years in jail for Ms Yu's manslaughter.
Justice David Porter's comments: Full transcript
Warning: Graphic content
Williams has already spent a year in custody and will be eligible to apply for parole after serving another five.
Papadopoulos and Williams picked up Ms Yu, who was known as "Tina", from a take-away pizza shop in Sandy Bay about 2:30am on June 25 last year.
Within three hours the 26-year-old was lying dead in the boot of Williams' car.
The men had driven her back to Papadopoulos' New Town flat where she was subjected to such extreme violence that she eventually asked for her death to be hastened.
She was sitting on the couch when Papadopoulos suddenly slammed a Besser block down on her forehead.
He punched her repeatedly, threw her against walls and dragged her through the unit by her hair.
At one point Papadopoulos slammed her up against a wall and stuck his hand between her legs.
Williams spent most of the time smoking cannabis in the lounge, but when Papadopoulos called out for him to come and watch, he did so.
As Justice Porter put it, Williams provided an "audience to (Papadopoulos') depravity".
Williams also took part in the violence, helping to choke Ms Yu.
He took off her underwear and helped carry her to the bath and watched as Papadopoulos drowned her.
Williams then touched Ms Yu's genitals as she lay dead in the bath, later saying he did so to gain Papadopoulos' approval.
The men put Ms Yu's things in a wheelie bin and drove her body to the Tyenna River near Westerway.
They rolled her body into the water and covered it with sticks.
In the following days the men made statements to police, saying they had dropped Ms Yu off at a city hotel.
Papadopoulos and Williams betrayed no emotion as they were sentenced in the Supreme Court in Hobart this morning.
Outside court members of Hobart's Chinese community said the sentence for Papadopoulos was fair and just, but Ms Yu's family would be disappointed by Williams' sentence.作者: denniswang_02 时间: 2010-7-1 00:28
提示: 作者被禁止或删除 内容自动屏蔽作者: bulekuler 时间: 2010-7-1 01:25
振奋人心 顶了作者: majia 时间: 2010-7-1 01:54
顶了，另外一个人10年作者: kosta 时间: 2010-7-1 02:01
姐姐 走好作者: Howe.. 时间: 2010-7-1 02:25
::zt13::可怜的前辈姐姐~~~作者: 小新 时间: 2010-7-1 09:38
R .I.P. 大家的努力没有白费作者: 小新 时间: 2010-7-1 09:38
R .I.P. 大家的努力没有白费作者: liuer 时间: 2010-7-1 13:31
这个必须顶，那个人是变，态作者: 哆啦A梦 时间: 2010-7-1 14:30
时隔1年多了。
终身监禁，澳洲最重的惩罚了吧。给暴跟斯上了一课。
余璋可以安息了。作者: LoUisa.R.Ly 时间: 2010-7-1 16:01
太好了，总算有个公平的惩罚了。作者: 铁竹 时间: 2010-7-1 16:33
还有一个嫌犯呢？放了？作者: 铁竹 时间: 2010-7-1 16:39
看到了，10年作者: byron 时间: 2010-7-1 17:08
