MH17: eight-year wait for justice is finally over for families of Australian victims

The Australian federal police deputy chief officer, Peter Crozier, arrives at the court in Badhoevedorp on Thursday to hear the verdicts. Photograph: John Thys/AFP/Getty

The mother of an Australian victim of MH17 has spoken of her relief after guilty verdicts were read out in a court in the Netherlands against three of the four men accused of shooting the plane out of the sky.

Meryn O’Brien, who lost her 25-year-old son Jack, said: “Everyone was relieved the process has come to an end, and it is very fair, and it has been meticulous.”