Benjamin Milward has been sentenced to life in prison over the brutal death of French student Sophie Collombet.
Milward, 28, was sentenced to a non-parole period of 20 years for the random and horrific attack on the 21-year- old as she walked home from university on the night of March 27, 2014.
He raped the French student and left her for dead in a Brisbane park.
Collombet's family flew from France to watch the sentencing of Milward, who pleaded guilty earlier this month.
Emotional victim impact statements from the family were read to the court in French and English.