<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A father and son are bracing for the prospect of a long stint behind bars for murdering a 19-year-old man, who has been remembered as "everybody's best friend".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Jesse Thompson, 19, was in the back seat of an SUV when he was fatally shot on the streets of Wyong, on the NSW Central Coast, in 2017.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>At the time, the SUV was embroiled in a high-speed pursuit with a ute driven by John Paul Evans, 57, with his son Keith Evans, 31, occupying the front passenger seat.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/first-guardian-superannuation-collapse-queensland-man-phil-loses-hundreds-of-thousands-forced-to-reverse-retirement/170a3c03-4e70-4584-8f37-04df79d27f3c"><strong><span>Mining worker Phil was forced to reverse his retirement after losing $240,000</span></strong></a><strong></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It came after one of Mr Thompson's friends was assaulted for sleeping with Keith Evans' girlfriend, a jury was told.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In retaliation, two men arrived at the Evans family home, making threats and smashing the glass front door.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Evans men and a young woman who cannot be identified then piled into a ute for a high-speed car chase that turned deadly.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/jesse-thompson-father-and-son-face-fate-over-car-chase-murder/701a0685-5bcc-4014-a97b-e5619a83f6dc" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The duo were found guilty of murdering Mr Thompson in 2021 and sentenced to more than three decades in prison.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/elon-musk-teslasstock-is-rising-as-elon-musk-buys-more-than-25m-shares-worth-about-1b/b01baca2-affe-4005-a47d-4b7d1c838130"><strong><span>Tesla's stock is rising as Elon Musk buys more than 2.5M shares</span></strong></a><strong></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But the conviction was tossed for legal reasons in 2024, triggering a second jury trial and a second round of guilty verdicts, which were delivered in July.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The father and son will again stare down the barrel of a long jail term when they are sentenced for a second time on Tuesday afternoon.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Justice Richard Weinstein has been asked to take into consideration the lives John and Keith Evans ruined when they murdered Mr Thompson.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"He was everybody's best friend," his brother Caleb told a hearing earlier in September, calling for an example to be set in sentencing the killers.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"He would never want to hurt anyone."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/queensland-crime-ram-raid-fire-redbank-plains-police-news/7b88e41f-39e8-46e2-8c5d-b0a71119deb5"><strong><span>Gang on the run after tobacconist hit by early morning ram-raid</span></strong></a><strong></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Mr Thompson's partner Hanna Andersen said she would never forgive the men who stole his life, delivering her and her family "the harshest life sentence possible".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"His life was treated like some sort of game," she said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"He was hunted down and left to die like he was some kind of animal, all while his killers continued on that day like nothing happened."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The cowardly act of revenge had nothing to do with Mr Thompson and yet he paid the ultimate price, the court was previously told.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The third person in the ute - a 25-year-old woman who cannot be identified because she was 17 at the time - has been jailed for more than 14 years after pleading guilty to Mr Thompson's murder.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://9.nine.com.au/Z8tJCf"><strong><span>Sign up here</span></strong></a><strong><span> to receive our daily newsletters and breaking news alerts, sent straight to your inbox.</span></strong></div></div>