Three gangsters have been jailed for the shooting murder of a bystander at a Sydney makeshift Buddhist temple and the attempted murder of the real target.
Qin Wu "was in the wrong place at the wrong time," Justice Peter Hamill said on Friday in the NSW Supreme Court.
The 37-year-old "innocent bystander" was shot dead on February 1, 2017 at the makeshift temple in Guilford after becoming caught up in a drugs dispute.
A NSW Supreme Court jury previously found Ying Cheng Luo, 35, Jaiyu "Da Yu" Liu, 39, and Ian "Michael" Fan, 50, guilty of murder as well as guilty of the attempted murder of Jun Jia.
The jury was told of a failed attempt to shoot Mr Jia in the streets of Bexley North and a second failed attempt to do the same at the temple.
The judge sentenced Luo to 30 years, Liu to 28 years and Fan to 22 years behind bars.
Their respective non-parole periods are 20 years, 19 years and 16 years and six months.
Jacob "Shiv" Bayliss, 35, was sentenced to a fixed term of 18 months for supplying firearms.
The judge was not satisfied, as contended by the Crown, that the murder arose out of a contract to kill Mr Jia over a drug debt.
Rather, he said it was likely Mr Jia was to be intimidated with guns into paying the debt.
Luo, Liu and Fan went into the temple, but Fan did not go inside.
The judge was satisfied Liu fired at least two shots during the resulting chaos.
The murder was a "very grave example of wanton lawlessness in the context of a gangland dispute over guns and drugs", he said.
