Lachlan Young has been sentenced to 28 years’ jail for killing his former partner, Hannah McGuire, in April 2024.
Young, 23, strangled Ms McGuire in their Sebastopol home, then placed her body in her ute and set it alight in bushland on Ballarat’s outskirts.
In the Supreme Court of Victoria this morning, Young was sentenced to 28 years’ jail with a non-parole period of 22 years and four months.
The court heard Ms McGuire was finalising plans to leave Young permanently in the months before her death.
Young sat emotionless in the dock when his sentence was read to a packed court sitting, which included numerous members of the Clunes community and Ms McGuire’s family.
However, Young, wearing a black shirt, could be heard crying when Supreme Court Justice James Elliot described his actions in the lead-up to Ms McGuire’s murder.
Young has served 589 days of pre-sentence detention and will be eligible for parole in August 2046.
In Victoria, the standard sentence for murder is 25 years’ jail, and the maximum penalty is life behind bars.
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