Overview

• Wrigley received a 16-year non-parole period and will be eligible for release in August 2041.
• A jury in May found him guilty of murdering Joel Carter after a six-week trial in Dubbo.
• The court found Carter was bludgeoned as he slept at his isolated property, with pathology evidence of repeated head trauma and his body discovered two days later.
• Recordings captured Wrigley boasting that he "didn't lose no sleep" and describing burning evidence, although he later tried to disavow the admissions and protested his innocence after sentencing.
• He was also convicted of stealing and torching Carter's ute and selling stolen tools, while the precise weapon remains unclear with references to a rubber mallet and a missing fire poker.