Convicted murderer Mert Ney who stabbed a sex worker to death before he went on terrifying rampage in Sydney CBD has three years shaved from release date
- Mert Ney discovers outcome of appeal
- Three years shaved from earliest possible release date
- Killed sex worker Michaela Dunn in August 2019
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A notorious murderer who was jailed for viciously stabbing a sex worker to death before going on a terrifying rampage through the Sydney CBD has had three years shaved off his earliest possible release on appeal.
However, Mert Ney, who shocked the city when he went on a bloody rampage through Sydney's streets in August 2019, still won't be eligible for release until the middle of the century.
Ney murdered Michaela Dunn before running through the streets brandishing a knife and stabbing another woman. He was then subdued by brave good Samaritans.
In Sydney's Supreme Court in May 2021, Justice Peter Johnson described Ney's actions as a 'cruel, brutal and terrifying attack made for no reason'.
He sentenced the unemployed man to 44 years in jail and set his first possible release on parole at August 2052 after serving 33 years.
However, Ney earlier this year appealed the length of his sentence.
Supreme Court
On Wednesday, the Court of Appeal quashed the sentence imposed in the Supreme Court and instead sentenced him to 40 years in jail as well as setting a 30-year non-parole period that will expire in August 2049.
However, the court was told that he had since also been sentenced in the Goulburn Local Court for assaulting a law officer and in the Penrith District Court for assault occasioning bodily harm.
His earliest possible date for release on parole is now October 12, 2050.
Michaela Dunn was murdered by Ney in a Clarence St unit in the Sydney CBD. Picture: Supplied.
He was arrested by police in Sydney's CBD in August 2019. Picture: Supplied/Twitter/David Vaux.
Ney pleaded guilty to murdering Ms Dunn as well as wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm after he stabbed another woman, Lin Bo, while running through the streets in the aftermath.
Before his rampage, he caught a train from Blacktown to the Sydney CBD armed with a knife in his backpack.
He booked a $250 sexual service with Ms Dunn, who worked out of a Clarence St unit where he viciously stabbed her in the face, neck, chest and arms.
Ney's arrest after his terrifying rampage through the Sydney CBD. Picture: Supplied
He travelled by train to the Sydney CBD from Blacktown before he killed Ms Dunn. Picture: Supplied
After murdering Ms Dunn, Ney made a bizarre video on his mobile phone, during which he said 'Allahu Akbar' and 'f*** infidels' and sent messages via social media.
He then went on a terrifying rampage through the streets brandishing another knife and with a balaclava over his head.
A group of courageous citizens managed to subdue him with a chair and a milk crate before he was arrested by police.
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