Convenience store owner Adeel Ahmad Khan has been sentenced to 30 years in jail for the murder of Chris Nobel and manslaughter of Bianka O’Brien and her baby son Jude.
In September 2014, Khan deliberately set fire to his shop in Rozelle, in Sydney’s Inner West which led to a catastrophic explosion.
Three people died in the explosion; 27 year old Chris Nobel, who lived in the apartment above Khan’s store and Bianka O’Brien and her 11-month-old son Jude who lived in the apartment next to the Phone Life shop next door.
After the explosion, Khan was found buried under rubble and a commercial fridge. He said “I’m so sorry” to a paramedic who helped him, but denied repeatedly saying, “I didn’t mean it.”
When Khan was found guilty in June this year, Chris Nobel’s mother Liz said she was disappointed with the manslaughter verdict.
“What a dreadful waste of three young lives that should have been safe sleeping in their own beds in Rozelle, as they were 21 months ago; lives taken so callously by the act of a man focused only on his own perceived needs,” she told the SMH.
“Chris was loved by so many people. He was a great young man with a wonderful, fulfilling and happy future ahead of him.
We will miss everything about him every day for the rest of our lives.”
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