Murderer Jack Harrison Vincent Sadler to fight 32-year jail term in November court appeal hearing

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CONVICTED murderer Jack Harrison Vincent Sadler will likely fight the length of his 32-year prison sentence at an appeal hearing this November.

The Launceston drug trafficker, who shot and gruesomely dismembered his former friend Jake Anderson-Brettner in August 2018, will argue his case on a singular ground – that the sentence is “manifestly excessive”.

He appeared in the Court of Criminal Appeal on Tuesday, before Justice Helen Wood, on video link from Risdon Prison.

The directions hearing came after Sadler’s lawyer Rochelle Mainwaring filed a notice of appeal last month.

Murderer Jack Harrison Vincent Sadler and ex-girlfriend Gemma Clark. Picture: Facebook

Sadler is currently not eligible for parole until he has served 20 years of his head sentence, a time frame due to expire in August 2038.

On Tuesday, Director of Public Prosecutions Daryl Coates SC suggested the appeal books and written submissions be prepared and filed in September and early October, with an appeal hearing to be set down for the court’s November sittings.

Sadler, who was found guilty of murder by a jury in May, had lined a room of his Riverside home in plastic before killing Mr Anderson-Brettner.

He then used a knife and axe to cut off the 24-year-old’s arms, legs and head, dumping his torso off an embankment and disposing of other body parts in wheelie bins.

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