Repeat thug Richard Vincec could walk in five years for killing Jaiden Walker

A COWARD one-punch killer with a history of violence has felt the full feather force of Victorian justice.

Prison officers escort Richard Vincec into a prison van after his sentencing today. Picture: AAP

A COWARD one-punch killer with a shocking history of violence will likely walk free from jail in just five years.

Geelong man Richard Vincec punched 22-year old Jaiden Walker in the face after he refused to shake his hand on May 6.

Mr Walker’s head hit the road and the softly spoken labourer died days later in hospital.

By all accounts he was a hardworking man who had the world at his feet when his life was so cruelly taken.

Vincec, on the other hand, was a low-life thug, who had only just managed to crawl out of the gutters of Corio when he became a killer.

The 26-year old was lucky not to have been jailed for a mandatory 10 year term under Victorian laws implemented to discourage coward punches.

Jaiden Walker

Jaiden Walker on life support

He pleaded guilty to manslaughter, which carries a 20 year maximum sentence.

But Justice Peter Riordan sentenced him to just eight, with a non-parole period of five.

It was revealed Vincec — a father of three — had a shocking history of violence stemming back to his teens.

As an 18 year old, the meth using, booze swilling coke head was convicted and fined for an unlawful assault and criminal damage.

He didn’t learn his lesson and just months later was spared jail again when he was gifted a community corrections order for another violent assault.

Justice Riordan commended the brute for his efforts to get his life back in order.

The court heard he got a job in construction and went about creating a family.

But his love for drugs, booze and women would ultimately seal his victim’s doom.

On the night Mr Walker died, Vincec had been let of the leash and was on a bender in Melbourne with mates.

He’d hooked up with a woman who he was canoodling with moments before he killed his unsuspecting victim.

Vincec had been booted from the Cherry Bar on ACDC Lane earlier for getting it on with the woman in the toilets.

He begged her to go to a motel room with him, but settled for a pash outside the Chanel shop on Russell St.

Family members of victim Jaiden Walker leave court today. Picture: AAP

When she went to leave with her mates, including Mr Walker, Vincec insisted they shake his hand.

“Shake me hand c — t”, he told Mr Walker. “Shake my hand, I’m not a dog”.

Mr Walker then squeezed the sleazebag’s hand, enraging the thug.

Vincec fled the bloody scene and initially denied any involvement in the attack.

In sentencing, Justice Riordan said his must deliver a “just sentence” that “must vindicate the human dignity of the victim by recognising the legitimate community interest in the denunciation and punishment of alcohol fuelled violence with its tragic consequences”.

He accepted Vincec had pleaded guilty to the crime, had good prospects of rehabilitation, would struggle in jail and had shown genuine remorse for his actions.