THE parents of slain teenager Thomas Kelly have lashed out at the NSW justice system, saying they feel "destroyed" by the process that ended in their son's killer being sentenced to four years jail.
The 18-year-old was killed when he suffered massive head injuries from a king hit by a drunken stranger, Kieran Loveridge, during a night out with friends in Sydney's Kings Cross last year.
Loveridge was handed a four-year sentence for the manslaughter, plus 14 months for attacks on four others who, like Mr Kelly, happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Grieving parents Ralph and Kathy Kelly told reporters immediately after the sentencing on Friday they were "horrified".
On Sunday they spoke out about their fight to have the Director of Public Prosecutions pursue a murder charge.
Loveridge, 19, pleaded guilty to the alternative charge of manslaughter, thus securing a 25 per cent discount on his sentence.
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"We pleaded with them not to downgrade it," Ralph Kelly told the Nine Network.
"We've spent the whole year fighting for Thomas in a legal system that just doesn't care ... We feel destroyed."
Kathy Kelly said she did not believe Loveridge was remorseful: "The talk in the papers about him breaking down in the witness stand? I didn't see any tears."
She criticised Justice Stephen Campbell's emphasis on Loveridge's rehabilitation prospects, and said the prosecution had kept the family in the dark.
"They are nice people and I guess they're just doing their job within the realms of the law, but we have been fighting (the downgraded charge) constantly, you know, even to the point that sometimes people would refuse to email us or we'd get notification after six o'clock on a Friday night ... it was just like nobody wanted to talk to us," Mrs Kelly said.
She said there had not been a single night since her son died that she had not cried herself to sleep.
"I wake up and the first thing I think about is Thomas, and I cry, and I cry for what he's lost," she said.
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