Lynette Daley's family call for DPP to resign

Lynette Daley died on a remote beach in Northern New South Wales almost seven years ago.

Today, her family spoke of the heartache caused by not only the event of her death, but the time it has taken for justice. 

Ms Daley, 33, bled to death at Ten Mile Beach after a violent sex act with her boyfriend Adrian Attwater and his mate, Paul Maris, on a drunken camping trip in January 2011.

The pair was charged at the time but in early 2012 the Director of Public Prosecutions, Lloyd Babb, decided not to go ahead with the case.

After an independent review, Mr Attwater and Mr Maris were again charged in 2016, and went on trial in August 2017.

The six-week trial of the pair ended in September, with Mr Attwater found guilty of manslaughter and aggravated sexual assault. 

Mr Maris was found guilty of aggravated sexual assault and hindering the discovery of evidence. 

At today's sentencing hearing, six of Ms Daley's family members made emotional statements before the court.

"Seven years of struggle, heartbreak, and stress to get to the stage where we finally heard the words guilty," Thelma Davis, Lynette's mother, wrote in her victim impact statement.   

Mrs Daley's mother, sisters, and children all echoed the same sentiment of the impact of losing a central family member. 

"I have had to watch my seven grandchildren grow up without their mother," Mrs Davis' statement read.

Her children said while they were glad justice had finally been served but that it would not bring their mother back.

"These men have taken all the great things in life from her children and family," one of Ms Daley's daughters read on behalf of the seven children. 

Outside the Coffs Harbour Court House, Ms Daley's stepfather, Gordon Davis, called for the DPP to be held to account.   

"Reflectively I believe the DPP is solely responsible for the trauma and grief my family and myself have endured for the past six and a half years,” Mr Davis said before the court.  

"It should never have happened to any women no matter what nationality, indigenous or non-indigenous.”

With AAP.