A man who kidnapped, tortured and brutally murdered Victorian mother-of-two Karen Chetcuti has been jailed for life without the chance of parole.
50-year-old Michael Cardamone attacked his well-liked neighbour at her rural Whorouly home and held her prisoner for several hours before burning her to death in remote bushland in January 2016.
Supreme Court Justice Lex Lasry on Friday sentenced Cardamone to life in prison with no minimum term for the “extraordinarily vicious, callous and thoroughly unprovoked” murder, meaning the killer will spend the rest of his life behind bars.
