Cleo Smith abductor’s appeal against sentence fails

Terence Darrell Kelly, who pleaded guilty to 2021 kidnapping, will be eligible for parole after serving 11 years and six months

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The man who kidnapped four-year-old Cleo Smith from her family's tent at a remote Western Australian campsite has failed to have his sentence reduced.

Terence Darrell Kelly attempted to appeal against his jail term of 13-and-a-half years for snatching the girl at the Blowholes campsite, about 70km north of Carnarvon in the early hours of 16 October 2021, as her parents slept.