'Devastated': family members pay tribute to Ahmaud Arbery at sentencing of killers – video

Ahmaud Arbery's family bared their grief and loss to the judge during the sentencing of three white men convicted of his murder.

The men, father and son Greg and Travis McMichael and their neighbor William 'Roddie' Bryan, chased down Arbery, who was jogging in his neighbourhood, in pickup trucks and shot him dead.

At the start of the hearing, superior court judge Timothy Walmsley rejected last-minute legal motions by Bryan's defense attorney to throw out his murder conviction and spare Bryan from the life sentence that state law imposes automatically