A Queensland man will spend Christmas behind bars after going on a crime spree following his release from jail for killing his stepson.

Matthew Scown was sentenced to four years’ jail in October 2017 for the manslaughter of four-year-old Tyrell Cobb, but was allowed to walk free immediately after having already served almost three years behind bars.

However, he breached this sentence in early this year by committing 28 more offences, including fraud, driving while on drugs and possessing a gun.

Brisbane Supreme Court Justice Martin Burns today said he should serve additional time in jail for the breach, and ordered Scown be released on parole in January next year.

Tyrell died on the Gold Coast in May 2009 from internal bleeding and stomach injuries caused by blunt force trauma.

A post-mortem revealed he had 53 bruises and 17 abrasions from head to legs when he died.

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Scown was not accused of causing the fatal injury to Tyrell, but of standing back and watching the tiny boy die as his condition got worse. He called triple-0 only after Tyrell had begun vomiting bile.

“The horror of all of this is that the injuries Tyrell sustained were treatable and that he would have survived if he received treatment,” Justice Martin Burns said in 2017.

Tyrell’s mother Heidi Strbak was jailed for nine years for the manslaughter of her son, with a non-parole period of four years, and has since lost an appeal to reduce her maximum sentence.

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