Allan Geoffrey O’Connor has been sentenced to three life sentences for the murder of three people at Hermidale in 2015.
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The 64-year-old was sentenced in the NSW Supreme Court at Dubbo on Thursday.
Three days earlier O’Connor had been found guilty of murdering Rebecca Webb and father and son Stephen and Jacob Cumberland after a four-week trial by jury.
Justice Robert Hulme handed down the sentence with members of the Cumberland family watching from the public gallery.
In a highly-emotional day of sentencing submissions on Wednesday, members of the victims’ families had told of the anguish they suffered at the crimes committed against their loved ones.
The court heard the father and son had been an “inseparable pair”, and that Ms Webb had been a “fun-loving, happy person”.
Justice Hulme had said he was grateful to the family members for reading their statements.
Hearing them had reflected the “reality of this terrible tragedy”.
“[The court is] grateful to hear more about three fine people,” he said on Wednesday.
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