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Former premier's daughter Harriet Wran sentenced to two years jail

Harriet Wran, the high-profile former New South Wales premier's daughter, has been sentenced to at least two years jail in relation to the death of a drug dealer in a Sydney housing commission block in 2014.

Ms Wran has been sentenced for robbery in company and accessory to murder.

This means she is eligible for parole in two weeks.

Wran had pleaded guilty to a charge of harbouring, maintaining or assisting at the time of the murder.

She blew a kiss to her mother Jill before entering the dock for sentencing this morning at 10am.

During the sentencing, 7 News reporter Samantha Brett tweeted that Harriet Wran was "wiping away tears as [the] judge outlined events leading up to Mr McNulty's death."

Justice Harrison reportedly said Wran had "no idea co-offenders had weapons or were planning the robbery or to inflict violence."

The judge also made note that Wran "harboured co-accused Lee for three days and failed to bring him to the attention of police," yet accepted she was "genuinely sorry" and of "good character."

The court heard that media coverage had made her a "potential target in a dangerous environment."

In front of the packed courtroom at New South Wales supreme court, Wran was visibly distressed during the proceedings.

Harriet Wran was born into an Australian political aristocracy as one of former New South Wales Premier Neville Wran's five children from two marriages. Source: Facebook.
Harriet Wran was born into an Australian political aristocracy as one of former New South Wales Premier Neville Wran's five children from two marriages. Source: Facebook.

A fortnight ago, Wran tearfully told a NSW Supreme Court sentencing hearing of her battles with mental illness and her descent into the grips of a crippling ice addiction.

The youngest daughter of beloved late politician Neville Wran was set to be tried for the 2014 murder of Daniel McNulty, but instead pleaded guilty to downgraded charges of robbery in company and acting as an accessory to murder after the fact.

On July 14, the 28-year-old told how she developed anorexia, and then bulimia, in her late teens, and had been battling an addiction to methamphetamine for two and a half years before Mr McNulty was murdered by her then-boyfriend, Michael Lee, and his friend Lloyd Edward Haines, at an inner-city housing commission unit.


In the 24 hours before the murder, Wran told the court she had three or four shots and smoked a lot of ice.

"I feel terrible. I'm ashamed to have been involved in anything like that," Wran said in the July 14 court hearing.

"I can't believe someone died. I can't believe someone was so badly hurt. No one should lose their life in those circumstances.

Wran said she was in disbelief about being involved with someone's death. "I live with it everyday," she said.