Supreme Court<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n‘It is difficult to imagine the immense terror they felt in the hours leading up to their deaths,’ he said.<\/p>\n
Justice Martin accepted crown prosecutor Nathan Crane’s submission that the three defendants should serve 30 years instead of the mandatory 20-year minimum.<\/p>\n
All three defendants have already spent more than nine years in custody, which was recognised as time served.<\/p>\n
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Iuliana Triscaru, 31, (left) and Cory Breton, 28, (right) were killed at Kingston in Logan, south of Brisbane, on January 24, 2016<\/p>\n
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The pair had been beaten, stabbed and choked before they were stuffed into a two-metre-long toolbox<\/p>\n
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Stou Daniels, Davy Malu Junior Taiao and Trent Michael Thrupp were found guilty of the pair’s murder for a second time following a retrial<\/p>\n
Mr Breton’s partner, Miranda Parkinson, said in her victim impact statement that she knew he was dead as soon as she got a call from detectives asking to visit their home.<\/p>\n
‘I lost any hope I had held onto after 17 painstaking days that Cory was missing,’ she said.<\/p>\n
‘The man that I loved, that I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life with, no longer exists.’<\/p>\n
Mr Breton’s sister Tamara Kazim-Breton told the defendants about the person they ‘threw away so easily like they were nothing’.<\/p>\n
‘Your actions didn’t just take Cory, you tore us apart’, she said.<\/p>\n
‘None of us living decent lives should be forced to relive this horror.’<\/p>\n
Ms Triscaru’s mother and family members said in a joint victim impact statement that she was cherished as the heart of the family.<\/p>\n
‘Her senseless killing has left wounds that continue to bleed,’ the family members said.<\/p>\n
A jury returned its verdict on June 20 after deliberating for more than two days.<\/p>\n
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Toolbox murder victim Cory Breton’s partner Miranda Parkinson (2nd from left) and his sister Tamara Kazim-Breton (right) are seen leaving the Brisbane Supreme Court in Brisbane<\/p>\n
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Toolbox murder victim Cory Breton’s sister Tamara Kazim-Breton is seen leaving the Brisbane Supreme Court in Brisbane<\/p>\n
The trio faced a retrial in Brisbane after the Court of Appeal set aside murder convictions in July 2024.<\/p>\n
Mr Breton and Ms Triscaru had been lured to a Kingston unit before being attacked by a group of men over a drug-dealing dispute.<\/p>\n
The men drank whiskey and played video games for hours after torturing the pair and forcing them into the toolbox.<\/p>\n
The terrified pair made so much noise as the container was being moved, music from an awaiting ute was turned up in a bid to conceal it.<\/p>\n
Thrupp either threw the toolbox, weighed down by concrete, into nearby Scrubby Creek or was present when it happened, Mr Crane told the jury.<\/p>\n
Daniels and Taiao were also liable for murder by forcing the victims into the toolbox hours before their deaths, he said.<\/p>\n
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