The Queensland attorney-general will appeal the 20-year non-parole sentence handed down to Daniel Morcombe’s killer, Brett Peter Cowan, last week. Cowan was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Queensland Supreme Court last Wednesday after he was found guilty of abducting and murdering the 13-year-old schoolboy in December 2003. The attorney-general Jarrod Bleijie said yesterday that […]
Brett Peter Cowan has been sentenced to life in jail for the murder of Sunshine Coast schoolboy Daniel Morcombe. Justice Roslyn Atkinson handed down the sentence in the Queensland Supreme Court at 1.10pm today. She also sentenced him to three-and-a-half years for indecently dealing with a child and two years for interfering with a corpse, […]