Road rage victim's ashes in court as family speaks

Stephanie Grech was hard at work when a radio report of a fatal road rage incident caught her attention.

The police employee stopped to check the details of the vehicles involved.

"It's my baby brother, it's Rhyce," she recalls crying out after seeing details of her brother's ute.

"I rang mum on the phone ... 'I think Rhyce is dead.'"

Rhyce Harding was 27 when he was killed in an altercation on his drive to work in Sydney's outskirts in June 2024.

His distraught relatives relayed their grief to the young landscaper's killer Bradley Wayne Wilkinson on Friday during a sentence hearing in Downing Centre District Court.

Mr Harding's ashes - brought into the court hearing by his brother Michael Grech - sat beside his four family members in the witness box as each spoke of the incident's l