2nd December 2008, 17:15 WST
The man who has admitted killing father of five Bill Rowe after striking him with a cricket bat on Christmas Day of last year could be free from jail in less than three years.
Mathew Roy McDonald, 22, was sentenced to five years and nine months jail in the WA Supreme Court today.
McDonald was made eligible for parole, meaning his earliest release date would be September 2011.
WTF is wrong with our judicial system in this country? I read the front page of the West this morning and was dumbfounded by this. It now seems that a part of this sentence is apportioned to a previous assault that this piece of s**t perpetrated back in 2006.
We have a guy with a history - a guy who is a murderer plain and simple and the best the Judge can offer Ellen Rowe is that "Justice is imperfect"
Stellar.