THE family of a WA teen killed by a bullet fired from a gun that was being cleaned have reacted angrily to his killer's jail sentence.
Perth man Joseph Christopher Giglia, 30, was sentenced to six years and five months behind bars after pleading guilty to fatally shooting a teenager in the head.
Giglia was charged with manslaughter after 18-year-old Dale Plaziuk was shot on May 27, 2012 as he sat with friends in a Hope Valley house.
Giglia panicked and hid his unlicensed, sawn-off bolt-action .22 calibre rifle, which he had bought weeks earlier at a pub, under a car in the backyard.
An ambulance was called and paramedics were told the victim had been hit by a bullet that someone was heating up with a blowtorch.
The teen died in hospital the next day.
Giglia was initially only charged with possessing an unlicensed firearm and bailed, later showing police where he'd hid the rifle.
Giglia's lawyers said in May that he intended to plead not guilty.
But in August, he pleaded guilty.
The Supreme Court of Western Australia's Justice Ralph Simmonds sentenced Giglia on Tuesday, taking into account the fact he committed the crime about midway through a suspended prison sentence for an earlier offence.
The sentence was backdated to June 28 this year, when he was taken into custody for further offences.
The victim's family did not accept Dale's death was a tragic accident and reacted angrily to the sentence, which they believed was grossly inadequate.
They intend to press authorities to appeal against the sentence, saying he deserves longer in jail.
When Giglia got out of jail, he'd have plenty of time to have a family and a joyful life, unlike Dale, mother Michelle Plaziuk said.
"We've got not life ... I don't have my son," she told reporters outside court.
She said she felt hatred for the justice system.
"This is just a kick in our face."
Reading from her victim impact statement, she said the hardest thing she'd ever done was to tell the doctors to end her son's life when it became apparent he wouldn't make it.
"And then to leave him and go home without my baby ... The second hardest thing to do was look at my other children and say 'it's time to say goodbye to your brother'.
"And the third hardest was my son getting put in the ground."
Giglia will be eligible for parole in four years and five months.
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