Court releases trial photos showing grazier's failed alibi in triple murder case

In the vast silence of outback Queensland, where neighbours are few and oversight is thin, a cattle grazier named Darryl Young turned a routine property meeting into a killing ground, shooting four people at his gate in August 2022. Three died — a husband, his wife, and their son — while a fourth escaped carrying a bullet he will never be rid of. After a trial in which forensic patience dismantled a carefully constructed alibi, Young was sentenced to life imprisonment, ineligible for parole until he is 99. The case reminds us that remoteness does not only describe geography — it can also descr