Photos show aftermath of Bogie cattle station murders

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Photos show aftermath of Bogie cattle station murders

A police photo of Darryl Young taken on the evening of his arrest. (Supplied: Supreme Court of Queensland)

Photos shown to the jury in the Supreme Court trial of convicted triple-murderer Darryl Young have been released.

The court released images that show the scene of the shooting and evidence found on the killer's cattle station.

Young will serve life in prison with a non-parole period of 40 years, believed to be the longest sentence ever imposed by a Queensland judge.

Photos from the trial of killer grazier Darryl Valroy Young paint a picture of his failed attempt to create an alibi after gunning down four neighbours, killing three.

Young received a sentence of life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 40 years on Monday after he was found guilty of three murders and an attempted murder.

Maree and Mervyn Schwarz (left) and Graham Tighe were found dead at the gate of the Bogie cattle station in 2022. (Supplied/ABC News)

Mervyn Schwarz, 71, Maree Schwarz, 59, and her son Graham Tighe, 35, were killed at the gate of Young's Bogie cattle station on August 4, 2022.

Darryl Young shot Maree Schwarz as she sat in the driver's seat of this ute. (Supplied: Supreme Court of Queensland)

Young also shot Ross Tighe who fled the scene with a gunshot wound.

Ross Tighe drew on this photo of the murder scene in red which marks the path he took to escape. (Supplied: Supreme Court of Queensland)

The now-36-year-old survivor still has the deformed bullet in his hip.

Ross Tighe, known as "Rossco", was wearing this shirt when he was shot in the abdomen. (Supplied: Supreme Court of Queensland)

Young drove his dark grey Nissan Navara ute to and from the triple murder.

In the back seat police found an open rifle case and an orange work shirt like the one that Ross Tighe described Young wearing during the killings.

An orange shirt and an open rifle case were found in the back seat of Young's Nissan Navara. (Supplied: Supreme Court of Queensland)

On the driver's seat there was an open bottle of hand sanitiser, which prosecutors said Young used after the shootings while rushing to create an alibi.

An open bottle of hand sanitiser on the driver's seat of Young's ute. (Supplied: Supreme Court of Queensland)

Photos that were taken of Young after he shot his neighbours have been released by the court.

Young quickly caught up with wind farm workers on his property who later sent photos to police.

Darryl Young (centre) photographed within hours of the triple murder. (Supplied: Supreme Court of Queensland)

In his scramble, Young traversed 7 kilometres of arid terrain on unsealed roads at his isolated Bogie cattle station — a two-hour drive from the nearest major town of Collinsville.

When he was not working in the mines, Young lived at a dilapidated farmhouse torn apart by Tropical Cyclone Debbie in 2017 with his stepmother Sharon Young and son Derek Young.

The cyclone-damaged homestead on Darryl Young's Bogie cattle station. (Supplied: Supreme Court of Queensland)

Inside Young's bedroom were open packets of .30-30 calibre rifle cartridges.

Prosecutors told the trial that a .30-30-calibre rifle was used in the killing.

Packets of .30-30-calibre rifle cartridges were found throughout Young's home. (Supplied: Supreme Court of Queensland)

Young was not registered to carry a .30-30 calibre rifle, nor was his son.

Two cleaning kits for a .30-30 calibre rifle were found in a truck on Young's property.

Prosecutors said the rifle was never recovered but said Young likely disposed of it in one of the many old gold mine shafts on his property.

Police found a .30-30 rifle cartridge casing under this bench in Young's kitchen. (Supplied: Supreme Court of Queensland)

In the kitchen, in a box of long-life milk cartons, police found an aging rifle cartridge casing.

The trial heard the Queensland Police forensics unit used a microscope to confirm the impressions on that rifle cartridge casing matched those on the casings found at the murder scene.

Police found this cartridge casing for a .30-30-calibre rifle in Young's kitchen. (Supplied: Supreme Court of Queensland)

Strewn across a table in the kitchen were SD cards that Young said he used for motion detection cameras stationed about his property.

Two of those cameras were found in the kitchen.

One of Young's many motion detection cameras. (Supplied: Supreme Court of Queensland)

Young told the court that he removed cameras usually at the gate of his property the day before the shooting.

He said they had been "playing up", but prosecutors and the judge said Young did not want the meeting with his neighbours captured.

Young and his stepmother drove an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) to meet with wind farm workers who had been on the station since before the shooting.

Darryl Young leaning on an all-terrain vehicle awaiting instructions from Queensland Police on the day of the murders. (Supplied: Supreme Court of Queensland)

Young argued he had an alibi and could not have been at the scene of the shooting and was with the wind farm workers, about 7 kilometres away, at the given times.

The wind farm workers, Liam Parnell and Matthew Garbutt, were connected with a police negotiator hours after the shooting.

They asked the men for photos of Young and his relatives with their hands up — which demonstrated that no-one was armed.

Darryl Young (left) shows his hands in photo sent to Queensland Police. (Supplied: Supreme Court of Queensland)

Young is to serve three life sentences for the murders and 16 years for attempted murder.

The 63-year-old, who has been in custody since 2022, was given a 40-year non-parole period.

He will not be eligible for parole until he is 99, if he is still alive.

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