Ms Webb was a nurse and mother-of-one.

Outside court, Heather Poole spoke on behalf of the Cumberland family, labelling O'Connor an "animal" and saying the family was pleased with the sentence after a "horrific" past three years, the ABC reported. 

"No sentence will ever be harsh enough," she said.

"Even in jail he will still have the joy of seeing and holding his loved ones, that is something we can never get back.

"Our family was stolen from us — we'll never have a normal life — but we will have an existence."

Justice Robert Hulme handed down the sentence with members of the Cumberland family watching from the public gallery.

"As a further indignity, Mr O'Connor set fire to the caravan in which Stephen Cumberland had been killed," Justice Hulme said.

"There was very little left of his body after the fire had burned out."

In a highly-emotional day of sentencing submissions on Wednesday, members of the victims’ families had told of the anguish they suffered at the crimes committed against their loved ones.

The court heard the father and son had been an “inseparable pair”, and that Ms Webb had been a “fun-loving, happy person”.

Justice Hulme had said he was grateful to the family members for reading their statements.

Hearing them had reflected the “reality of this terrible tragedy”.

“[The court is] grateful to hear more about three fine people,” he said on Wednesday.

More to come 

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