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NewsMail Afternoon Edition Fri 14 Mar, 2014 Top Stories More Top Stories » Daniel Morcombe's killer sentenced to life in prison Brett Peter Cowan has been sentenced to life in jail with a minimum non-parole period of 20 years for the murder of Sunshine Coast teenager Daniel Morcombe. Cowan was yesterday found guilty of murder, indecent treatment of a child and interfering with a corpse. Cowan abducted Daniel while the 13-year-old waited for a bus at Woombye on the Sunshine Coast in 2003. Sentencing Cowan in Brisbane's Supreme Court today, Justice Roslyn Atkinson described his crime as "entirely abhorrent". "You killed him because you didn't want to get caught. Everything you did to that boy is horrific and disgraceful," she said. "I've seen no evidence in the months you've been in this court that you ever felt any remorse for what you did. You have tragically and pointlessly snuffed out a young life." 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