LENAH Valley man Brodie Leigh Price, 20, has been handed an eight-year jail term for shooting a man dead in January last year.
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Price was on Monday found not guilty of murder, but guilty of manslaughter, for killing Jason William McPherson, 41, on January 17 last year.
Price had pleaded not guilty to the murder, and Justice Stephen Estcourt acknowledged he had never shown remorse.
Price will be eligible for parole after serving four years, backdated to when he was first taken into custody after the shooting.
The deceased man's father, David McPherson, said he was extremely disappointed with the verdict and sentence.
''I've lost my son, and I've lost my right arm... his life was worth more than four years,'' Mr McPherson said.
Justice Stephen Estcourt said it was difficult to understand how the jury could have passed over a guilty verdict to murder, and yet arrived at one of manslaughter, having accepted Price voluntarily and intentionally pulled the trigger.
Jurors returned the majority guilty verdict to manslaughter on Monday morning, after about seven hours of deliberations.
Justice Estcourt said it was unclear what motivated Price to fire the single, fatal shot.
The Crown had argued Price held a deep-seated hatred for Mr McPherson, shooting him dead after a long-running family feud.
His defence instead argued the shooting was a tragic accident - the result of a drug robbery gone horribly wrong.
Earlier, Price sighed deeply and grasped at his stomach as the verdict was returned, undoing his top button, loosening his tie and asking for water once the jury was dismissed.
Mr McPherson's family shouted obscenities at Price after the verdict came in, with court guards evicting them briefly from the room.
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LENAH Valley man Brodie Lee Price, 20, has been found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter for a January 2014 shooting.
Jurors returned the majority verdict on Monday morning, after about seven hours of deliberations.
Price had pleaded not guilty to murdering Jason William McPherson, 41, on January 17 last year.
The Crown had argued Price held a deep-seated hatred for Mr McPherson, shooting him dead after a long-running family feud.
His defence instead argued the shooting was a tragic accident - the result of a drug robbery gone horribly wrong.
Price sighed deeply and grasped at his stomach as the verdict was returned, undoing his top button, loosening his tie and asking for water once the jury was dismissed.
Mr McPherson's family shouted obscenities at Price after the verdict came in, with court guards evicting them briefly from the room.
Justice Stephen Estcourt is expected to deliver his sentence this afternoon.
