21 years for Stainforth murder

TWO violent drunks who bashed a man to death at Hobart's Stainforth Court last year have been sentenced to a maximum 21 years in prison.

Jamie Peter Smart, 32, of Glenorchy, and Rhys Louis Gardner, 20, of Bellerive, went to Shayne Anthony Waller's public housing unit at Cornelian Bay on February 18 last year after a night of drinking.

While they were there a fight broke out and Michael David Williams, 39, of Kingston was fatally injured and Mr Waller, 52, was severely hurt.

The pair were found guilty of murder and causing grievous bodily harm by a Supreme Court jury in September.

In the Supreme Court in Hobart today, Justice David Porter described the murder as a senseless and brutal attack on innocent man.

He said Smart had shown no remorse and had a long criminal record.

While Gardner had shown some remorse, he had been abusing alcohol since the age of six and shown little inclination to try to rehabilitate himself.

Justice Porter sentenced both men to a maximum of 21 years, with a non-parole period of 12 years.

Both men greeted the sentence without emotion.

In July, Smart was given a three-month suspended jail term for tearing the heads off two kittens with his bare hands.

Outside the court, Mr Williams' mother Therese greeted the sentence with relief.

"I'm very, very happy. You can't go any more can you?" she said.

"I think they should rot in there. If they had have hung them in front of me, I would have been satisfied.

"He was my baby son and we were good friends. I will never forget him, never ever forget him, because I loved him so much and I still do."

Read more in tomorrow's Saturday Mercury.

david.killick@news.net.au

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