News Home  Court rejects bid to increase arsonist's sentence
Brendan Sokaluk, who was found guilty of Black Saturday charges.
Sokaluk was sentenced to a minimum 14 year term for arson
causing death.  AAP: Julian Smith  The Victorian Court of Appeal
has rejected a bid to increase the sentence imposed on a man
convicted of arson on Black Saturday.  Brendan Sokaluk was
sentenced to a minimum 14 years in jail for multiple counts of
arson causing death.  He was convicted of deliberately lighting
the Churchill bushfire that killed 10 people in 2009.  The
Director of Public Prosecutions appealed against the sentence
arguing that it was too lenient, given the gravity of the
offending.  But the appeals court has ruled the 14-year sentence
was not manifestly inadequate.  More Stories