00:00Grieving families, arriving for the start of three confronting days in court.
00:08Ten people were killed when a bus overturned on a roundabout in Greta last June.
00:13Twenty-five were injured.
00:15Among the victims were Lynnon Scott and her husband Andrew.
00:19Today her mother told Newcastle Court,
00:22My heart cannot accept the loss.
00:25Listening to her harrowing account was the man responsible for the crash, Brett Button.
00:30Today he heard from the first 17 family members and survivors before his sentencing.
00:37Graham McBride's wife Nadine and daughter Kaya were killed in the crash.
00:42He was badly injured.
00:43He told the court he misses having a glass of wine on the hill with his wife.
00:48Now I sit there alone, watching the sunset,
00:52hoping you'll come back with the sunrise in the morning.
00:55Rebecca Mullen's father described how his daughter was planning her wedding and her career as a doctor.
01:02Our lives were destroyed.
01:04Touching a daughter's cold arm in a morgue is something a father can't explain.
01:10Brett Button asked to appear remotely in court for the sentencing hearing.
01:15The judge denied the request,
01:17forcing him to sit just metres away from his victim's loved ones who delivered impact statements.
01:23Button's family was also in the courtroom.
01:26Judge Roy Ellis described the three days of hearings as unprecedented.
01:31Never before have so many people been killed and injured in a single motor vehicle incident.
01:37Emotions are likely to run high over the next few days
01:42and these proceedings are going to be unsettling for the victims and their families.
01:47In May, Button pleaded guilty to multiple charges,
01:51including several counts of dangerous driving occasioning death.
01:55The judge said the sentence will be lengthy.
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