{"id":468416,"date":"2026-02-09T11:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/468416\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T11:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:52:11","slug":"dimitri-delio-kylie-stott-jailed-for-christmas-eve-killing-of-charlie-gander-in-bunbartha-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/468416\/","title":{"rendered":"Dimitri D’Elio, Kylie Stott jailed for Christmas Eve killing of Charlie Gander in Bunbartha, Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two people have been sentenced to a combined 36 years’ jail over the Christmas Eve killing of 19-year-old Charlie Gander.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dimitri D’Elio, 28, was convicted of murdering Mr Gander following a near seven-week trial last July<\/a>, with his co-accused, Kylie Stott, found guilty of the lesser charge of manslaughter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Today, the Supreme Court of Victoria sentenced D’Elio to 26 years’ imprisonment with a non-parole period of 17 years, while Ms Stott was jailed for 10 years with a non-parole period of six years.<\/p>\n

The pair’s other associate, Danny Clarke, who helped kidnap Mr Gander, became eligible for parole on the day of his sentencing<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Emergency services found the badly burnt remains of Mr Gander in a car set on fire on a country road in Bunbartha, northern Victoria, on Christmas Eve 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The jury was shown photos taken by Victoria Police of the burnt car with the remains of Charlie Gander. (Supplied: Supreme Court of Victoria)<\/p>\n

Mr Gander’s parents say their lives were forever changed when they learned their son was dead on Christmas Day. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Supreme Court Justice Michael Croucher became emotional as he readout \u00a0D’Elio’s sentence, referencing Mr Gander’s father Richard’s victim impact statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Justice Croucher told the court the victim’s father said he did not believe for a moment that time could heal all wounds when it came to losing a child.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Dimitri<\/p>\n

Dimitri D’Elio attends the Supreme Court of Victoria. (ABC News: Matthew Holmes)<\/p>\n

“Sadly, I think he\u2019s right,” Justice Croucher said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Speaking outside court, Richard Gander said he was “shocked by how lenient [the sentence] was”.<\/p>\n

“I’m going to live with this for the rest of my life,” Mr Gander said.\"Richard<\/p>\n

Richard Gander addresses media outside court. (ABC News: Rudy DeSantis)<\/p>\n

At a plea hearing last year, the court heard emotional victim impact statements from Mr Gander’s parents, siblings and grandparents.<\/p>\n

His mother Alison said that hearing about his death on Christmas Day had made the day one of mourning rather than joy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Justice Croucher told the court the sentence imposed was not reflective of how much Mr Gander’s life was worth or his family’s suffering, but instead reflected a combination of factors required by law.<\/p>\n

Dimitri D\u2019Elio will be eligible for parole in December 2039, while Kylie Stott could apply in December 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have been sentenced to a combined 36 years’ jail over the Christmas Eve killing of 19-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,188692,239379,239381,239380,24275,2968,44,5220,40205,55285],"class_list":["post-468416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-charlie-gander","tag-dimitri-delio","tag-justice-michael-croucher","tag-kylie-stott","tag-manslaughter","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-prison","tag-sentencing","tag-supreme-court-of-victoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}