In the remote Queensland community of Bogie, a bitter dispute over stolen cattle culminated in three deaths and a sentence so severe it stretches beyond the ordinary span of a human life. Darryl Young, now 63, has appealed both his convictions and a 40-year non-parole period — the longest in Queensland's legal history — that would see him eligible for release only at the age of 99. The case asks, as such cases always do, what justice owes to the dead, to the living, and to the long arc of a society that must decide how it holds its most violent members.
Bogie triple murderer Darryl Young appeals record 40-year non-parole sentence
Three neighbours were killed and one was shot and wounded in the attack: Mervyn Schwarz (71), Maree Schwarz (59), Graham Tighe (35), and Ross Tighe (36).