Triple murderer Darryl Young sentenced to life with 40-year non-parole period

In a Townsville courtroom, a 63-year-old cattle station owner received three life sentences for the murders of his neighbours — men he had accused of theft before inviting them to a gate and shooting them with a rifle. Justice Christopher Johnstone, finding the offending among the worst imaginable, extended the standard non-parole period by a decade, to forty years, rendering Young's prospect of freedom all but a mathematical impossibility. The case is a sombre reminder that the oldest of human grievances — the boundary, the animal, the accusation — can still collapse into irreversible violenc