A DRIVER who killed three teenagers in a hit-and-run smash in southeast Queensland has had his sentence increased to 10 years.
Michael Daniel Henderson has also been branded a serious violent offender.
That means he will have to serve at least 80 per cent of the sentence for killing Ipswich teenagers Brittany Bramwell, 17, Matthew Prior, 18 and Nicholas Saxby, 16 in 2011.
Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie appealed the 35-year-old's initial seven-and-a-half-year sentence last year on the grounds it was manifestly inadequate.
In a unanimous decision on Thursday, the Court of Appeal agreed and increased Henderson's sentence by two and a half years.
The court heard Henderson drove his ute through a red light in Ipswich in April 2011 and crashed into the teenagers' vehicle at about 85 to 95km/h.
He drove off, leaving the three and their seriously injured driver, 17-year-old Alex Gill, on the roadside.
The young friends were returning home from a Gold Coast amusement park.
The Court of Appeal's decision, published on Thursday, said the tragedy happened after the brother of Henderson's girlfriend confronted him about his treatment of his sister.
A fight broke out and the brother, Adrian Wood, fled in his ute.
Henderson followed in his ute, ramming Mr Wood's vehicle several times and forcing other motorists to swerve to avoid him.
Mr Wood ran a red light to avoid being hit again, but Henderson followed him through the intersection and T-boned the teenagers' car.
Henderson later ran from police after they spotted him in front of his house at Goodna, west of Brisbane.
The judgment detailed what the sentencing judge had to say about the crime's impact on the victims' families.
"A father wakes at 2.34am every morning because that is the time when the police knocked on his door and advised him of the death of his daughter," it read.
"Another father lives with the memory of identifying the battered body of his son.
"A mother describes the personal unbearable agony that she will live with for the rest of her life."
Justice Margaret Wilson said the initial sentence had failed to reflect the seriousness of Henderson's crimes, his "appalling" traffic history and the need to protect the community.
Henderson had a clear lack of respect for the law, she said.
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