A 25-year-old man, Anthony Harvey, has been jailed for life by an Australian Supreme Court for killing his three young daughters; twins and a three-year-old, with their mother and grandmother.
Mr Harvey, who admitted to the crime, was jailed on Friday.
His victims were found dead inside their home in suburban Perth on September 2018, after Harvey turned himself in.
Supreme Court Justice, Stephen Hall, said that Harvey’s crimes were exceptionally horrific and sentenced him to life in prison.
Hall said Harvey was the first person in Western Australia that will never be released from jail, a provision that was introduced to the state’s homicide laws in 2008.
“There is no other case that is truly comparable,’’ the judge said, as the women were unsuspecting, while the children were asleep before they were horribly murdered.
Harvey had written in a journal about embracing his “darkness and animal instincts and eliminating’’ his family.
Australian news agency AAP quoted him writing, “I am no psycho. I feel too much, I always have, I will regret what I do.”
The judge said the journal entries were “not a mere record of dark fantasies’’ and added that Harvey had planned the murder for days.
