Dean Cluney, Tyrone Gardner receive jail time for offences committed before fatal Yanco crash
ABCTwo men who broke into a home and menaced its occupants in the lead-up to a crash that killed a woman and three children have been sentenced to jail but will both be released before year's end. Dean Cluney, 33, and Tyrone Gardner, 22, had pleaded guilty to breaking and entering a home then intimidating two female occupants, including Tania Murphy, 36, in April last year. In Griffith District Court on Monday, Judge Clive Jeffreys sentenced Cluney to two years and 10 months' jail, with a non-parole period of one year and five months, dated to when he was arrested after the crash on April 5, 2023. Bashing threat According to court documents, when Ms Murphy drove away from the pizza restaurant, Cluney followed her home in a car driven by his mother Wendy Chattaway and accompanied by Gardner. In sentencing, Judge Jeffreys said he took into account the "significantly deprived" backgrounds of the pair, with Cluney experiencing an upbringing plagued by domestic violence, sexual abuse and parents with "chronic poly-substance" abuse issues.
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