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A Sydney man who filmed, raped, tortured, kidnapped and murdered his terrified niece before dumping her body in a blowhole says I let my own problems spill into the family home . This moment in my life has kept me awake at night in tears and I still have nightmares, Derek Barrett wrote in a letter of apology to his victim s heartbroken mother.
Already in jail for at least 34 years and six months for the murder and kidnapping, the former IT worker faced a resumed sentence hearing in the NSW Supreme Court on Tuesday in relation to the filmed sex attacks.
The grieving mother of a murdered student whose naked body was found floating in a NSW blowhole has asked a judge to re-sentence the killer to life after he admitted repeatedly raping her daughter.
Videos of Derek Barrett sexually assaulting her gagged and terrified daughter were on a USB mysteriously found in the hand of a woman with dementia in November 2019.
In 2017, the now 32-year-old was jailed for at least 34 years and six months after admitting repeatedly stabbing student Mengmei Leng, whose body was found in the blowhole at Snapper Point on the Central Coast in April 2016.
Derek Barrett was sentenced to 46 years in jail with a non-parole period of 34 years and six months for the brutal murder of his niece Mengmei Leng (both pictured)