WAGGA LOCAL COURT
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WITH rage still in their hearts and blood on their hands, murderers Bevan and Ethan McKellar were not done with violence less than two hours after stabbing a man to death.
The pair cruised into the Tolland shopping centre car park as passengers in a red Holden Commodore about 7.45pm on May 1, 2011.
Coming into the car park at the same time was a car driven by a woman, while a man sat in the front passenger seat.
Unfortunately for the pair, they aimed up for the same parking space wanted by the driver of the red Commodore out front of the then Eagle Boys pizza shop.
This led to what police described in facts tendered to Wagga Local Court as an "altercation" over the parking spot.
Police said the woman retreated from the parking spot, found another space nearby and went into the pizza shop, leaving the man in the car.
If he thought the altercation was over, he was wrong.
Suddenly, a woman in the car with the McKellars walked towards the other car and said to her mates: "Drag him out of the car. We'll kill him. Your'e a f.....g c..nt, a rotten dirty old f.....g white trash p...k. I'm gonna kill you when I get you out here."
Police said the man in the car immediately feared for his safety and locked the car doors.
The woman then tried to open the door by pulling up the door handle, all the while screaming abuse at the man.
At this stage, four men in the red Commodore, including brothers Bevan and Ethan McKellar, got out of the car.
One of the four said: "We are going to kill you, you get out here you white f.....g old trash."
Luckily, that is where the incident ended.
The five got back in their car and drove off.
In court on Monday, the McKellars both pleaded guilty to intimidation.
On September 5, each was sentenced to a minimum 18 years jail for murdering John Gjedsted at Ashmont about 6pm on May 1, 2011, and other acts of violence against another person at the same time.
Ethan McKellar's solicitor David Barron on Monday said in the case of his client: "This is the final chapter in a fairly horrendous night".
He said his client - who turned 22 on Monday - apologised for the incident.
Bevan McKellar's solicitor Rohan Harrison asked for concurrent sentences, with his client also pleading guilty to assaulting a police officer by kicking him in the testicles when was arrested on May 3 for breaching bail conditions while facing an unrelated charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
The law did not allow Magistrate Michael Antrum to extend the sentences given to the McKellars by the Supreme Court earlier this month.
He gave Ethan McKellar four months jail starting from Monday.
Bevan McKellar, 32, was given seven months jail for the intimidation and another seven months from November 15 for assaulting the police officer.