The family of Lauren Huxley will pop open a bottle of champagne after the man who doused their loved one in petrol and left her for dead was denied parole.
Ms Huxley was aged 18 in November 2005 when 39-year-old Robert Black Farmer entered her home in Northmead, in western Sydney.
He bound and beat her, then doused her in petrol, leaving Ms Huxley lying in a pool of blood and fuel as he set the property alight.
The teenager barely survived and was left with horrific injuries, including permanent brain damage.
Farmer was sentenced to more than 24 years in prison in 2008, and on Thursday his bid for an early release was shut down.
"It's just such a relief," Ms Huxley's mother Christine told reporters.
