Aussie rock legend Angry Anderson has said he is serving his own life sentence after the man who killed his son was sentenced to a minimum of five and a half years in jail.
His son Liam was killed by his friend Mathew Flame, who bashed him to death in a drug-fuelled pyschosis on Sydney's Northern Beaches in 2018.
"Two years ago our Liam had his life taken," Angry Anderson said outside court today.
"His life. Two years ago my family and those who loved him started a life sentence."
The court previously heard the pair attended The Awful Things music event in the Sydney CBD in November 2018, before going back to a house at Queenscliff.
Flame argued at trial his use of MDMA that night unmasked his undiagnosed schizophrenia.
He told police he thought his friend Liam was a demon who was trying to kill him.
Flame was charged with murder but found guilty of manslaughter last month.
He has a non-parole period of five-and-a-half years and will be eligible for release in May 2024.
In sentencing, Justice Richard Button described the anguish Liam's family have suffered since his death.
He said Liam's mother described the first year after he was killed as "a blur of grief''.
"She is haunted by the pain and terror of his final ordeal," Justice Button said.
"She speaks of herself of being a shipwreck survivor… She is doing her best to keep her head above crashing waves of despair."
Justice Button said Liam's father, Gary "Angry" Anderson recalls the "deeply distressed phone call" from his eldest son telling him Liam had been killed.
"There is a strong new bond between family members, but it is the bitter bond of grief," Justice Button said.
"No sentence that I or any judge can apply would relieve that pain."
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2020-12-16 07:56:00Z
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