‘Evil’ and ‘callous’
Supreme Court Justice Kevin Nicholson described Brittney Dwyer’s offending as ‘evil’ and ‘abhorrent’, saying it was difficult to determine the teen’s capacity for remorse.
Justice Nicholson said Brittney was motivated by greed and an ‘unnatural interest with violence and with seeing people die’.
‘This murder was brutal, callous, cold-blooded and dispassionately planned,’ he said. ‘The whole affair is, of course, a tragedy on two fronts. The very same people who have been very badly
damaged by the sudden and violent end of Mr Whitwell, who was greatly loved and respected, are simply shattered by the fact it was such a close member of the family who so callously and brutally murdered him.’