A Sydney man who beat and stomped on his teenage girlfriend in a "vicious, inhumane and unprovoked" murder has been jailed for at least 25-and-a-half years.
Eighteen-year-old Jazmin-Jean Ajbschitz must have been overcome by "unbelievable terror" as she fought to protect herself from her boyfriend, Sean Lee King, in the final moments of her life, Justice Geoffrey Bellew told the Supreme Court in Sydney on Friday.
King, 27, beat Jazmin-Jean Ajbschitz to death in a ferocious, drug-fuelled attack - kicking and hitting her with three different objects, dragging her through her apartment and stomping on her chest until her heart stopped beating.
He admitted to killing her on July 10, 2011, but he denied murdering her, on the grounds that he was high on the drug ice at the time and did not intend to kill her or cause her serious harm.
It took a jury less than two hours to find him guilty of murder last April.
Justice Bellew said the level of violence King inflicted on Ms Ajbschitz was evident from the "disturbing clarity" of crime scene photographs, which showed the apartment in an "entirely shambolic state" with blood in several locations.
"The victim was obviously in a petrified state, taking such steps to defend herself as she was subjected to a vicious, inhumane and unprovoked attack," Justice Bellew said.
"He intended to kill her."
King, who took the stand during his trial and sentence hearing, apologised for the murder, saying he loved "Jazy" and couldn't believe he had "taken someone so beautiful away".
Justice Bellew said King's remorse appeared genuine.
But he noted that at the time of the murder, King was on parole for previous offences.
King also pleaded guilty to two counts of assault over an April 2010 incident when he broke a man's jaw and stomped on a woman's head.
The attack, which King claimed occurred after the man spat on Ms Ajbschitz, was carried out in a "disturbingly similar fashion" to Ms Ajbschitz's murder.
King made no reaction as Justice Bellew set a maximum term of 33-and-a-half years for all three offences.
His mother yelled, "You've got to live with what you've done," at Ms Ajbschitz's family members before storming out of court.
Taking into account time already served, King will be eligible for parole in 2037.
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