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The New South Wales police officer found guilty over the fatal collision which killed Indigenous teenager Jai Kalani Wright has avoided prison.

Benedict Bryant, 47, was driving an unmarked police vehicle in inner Sydney on February 9, 2022, when 16-year-old Jai was thrown from the allegedly stolen motorbike he was riding and collided with the car.

The Dunghutti teenager, described by his family as vibrant, funny, witty and loved by many, later died in hospital from severe head injuries.

Mr Bryant had pleaded not guilty to dangerous driving occasioning death. However, following a judge-alone trial last year, Judge Jane Culver found him guilty, becoming the first known police officer in NSW history to be held criminally responsible for the death of an Aboriginal person during a police operation.

On Friday, Mr Bryant was sentenced to a two-year imprisonment, to be served as an intensive corrections order, with an additional condition to serve 500 hours of community service.

He has also been suspended from driving for three years.

He still serves as a NSW Police officer.

"No sentence can ever measure the value of a human life, especially not a life tragically lost so young, a life not fully lived, a life that matters," Judge Culver said.

Jai's mother, Kylie Aloua, who previously said she didn't want Mr Bryant to go to prison so his family won't suffer the same loss they do, said in her victim statement: "Every ambulance siren, every police siren, every rushed footstep takes me straight back to that moment.

"He will never reach adulthood ... I will never be a grandmother to his children," she wrote.

"The loneliness is overwhelming. I'm not living, I'm surviving."

The judge found Mr Bryant had minimal remorse and was instead "predominantly occupied with appealing his future sentence" and supposed anti-police sentiment.

His lawyer, solicitor Paul McGirr, told reporters after the guilty verdict last year: "A number of families, the police family and the young person's family are all hurting from this incident that could have been avoided if everyone was at home and in bed like they should have been,

"It's a bigger problem in the community and with respect to youth out on the streets doing things they should not do."

On Friday, he reiterated his client's intention to appeal, arguing it didn't "pass the pub test".

Speaking outside court, Jai's father, Lachlan Wright, told reporters: "Relieved that it's over is the best way to describe it."

"This has been a long, long journey .. it's a hard day because you go through a lot of memories of Jai so to have family support is very important and that's what got us through all that," he said

During the trial, the Crown argued Mr Bryant effectively created a roadblock by placing his vehicle in the path of the allegedly stolen motorbike "without authorisation or reasonable grounds", leaving Jai with no viable way to avoid impact.

CCTV footage shown to the court captured the moment Jai swerved in front of a police vehicle and accelerated into a bike lane. The court heard the trail bike was travelling at an estimated 68km/h in a 40km/h zone when it struck an obstruction, throwing Jai into the air.

The footage showed Jai colliding with the windscreen of Mr Bryant's vehicle while the officer remained inside.

The court heard a police operator had instructed officers not to pursue the stolen motorbike just one minute before the collision.

"The accused had relevant information that would allow him to conclude that the rider of the trail bike would go to considerable lengths to avoid capture," Crown prosecutor Phillip Strickland SC said in his closing submission.

"The fact that the accused knew about that directive ... should have acted to him as a specific warning."

The prosecution argued Mr Bryant, a police officer with more than 20 years' experience, should have known Jai would not stop.

Judge Culver accepted the Crown's case, finding: "The accused so seriously failed to properly manage the vehicle that he created a real danger."

The matter has taken several years to finalise, with police prosecutors initially declining to bring charges against Mr Bryant.

In 2024, NSW State Coroner Teresa O'Sullivan suspended the inquest into Jai's death and referred the case to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to consider whether criminal charges should be laid.

A month later, the DPP charged Mr Bryant with dangerous driving occasioning death and negligent driving occasioning death.

With AAP