It always seemed like there was another court date or hearing," said Mr Lovell, who was also wounded in the attack. Restoring the teen's original sentence "means everything", Mr Lovell said. Mr Lovell said his family was already upset by the length of the original sentence before it was appealed. "To then have the 70 per cent reduced was just heartbreaking," he said. "The murderer had their sentence reduced; that was a decision that I was unsatisfied with, and I'm quite sure community expectations demanded it be looked at," she said.