The Sydney man who murdered his niece then dumped her body into blowhole has had two years added to his sentence after it was revealed he sexually assaulted her.
A USB stick was found containing photos and videos of Derek Barrett sexually assaulting his niece Mengmei Leng.
Justice Helen Wilson said if the court had known the full extent of his abuse, Barrett would have received a life sentence.
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But such a sentence is not possible now. Instead he will serve 36.5 years in prison, two years longer.
Barrett bound, gagged and photographed his niece in their unit in the Sydney suburb of Campsie in 2016.
Then after two days, he stabbed her 40 times.
https://twitter.com/KellyFedor/status/1372343070448963584He then dumped Ms Leng's body in a blowhole at Snapper Point on the NSW Central Coast.
Her naked body was spotted by a tourist three days later.
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Barrett's wife had been away the weekend of the murder.
He told his trial he had no memory of the attack and was high on ice and synthetic cannabis at the time.
"You have no idea how it frustrates me every day trying to think of how this came about and why I went down this path," he told the court.
The court heard that he had been secretly filming his niece, who was two years younger than him, while she slept.
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