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A father who has fatally stabbed his children's uncle in the neck with a fishing knife because he has been having a life with a minimum of 19 years.
Shane Frederick James Josephs, 46, was a victim of murder after his ex-partner Rhys Karl Kelly, 25, died in hospital in April last year.
The WA Supreme Court heard Josephs believed Mr Kelly had been providing drugs to his 17-year-old daughter and perhaps his 19-year-old son.
Josephs drank three bottles of beer before stabbing the victim, then drank another before going back to his father's house.
He buried the knife under the front of the road.
Justice Stephen Hall said it was not a long-planned or sophisticated murder, nor did it involve a sustained attack.
"One blow to an obviously vulnerable part of Mr Kelly's body was enough," he said on Friday.
Justice Hall noted Josephs had a criminal record that included violent offending.
"He said," You have a disposition for heightened threat and heightened threat sensitivity, and this risk is heightened by alcohol use, "he said.
In a victim impact statement, Mr Kelly's mother Eileen described suffering stress, flashbacks and nightmares.
"She was admitted to hospital for several weeks (and) she re-traumatized of the scene where her died," Justice Hall said.
"She refers to Rhys' five-year-old son, who will not know her father, and how much her father loved him."
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