The rings had been posted to him by his brother, a cleaner at Ms Scott’s school, who has pleaded guilty to her murder and to aggravated sexual assault.
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The sentencing judge, Acting Justice Robert Hulme, has heard submissions from Crown prosecutor Paul Kerr and defence counsel Bill Neild and will sentence Stanford at 9.30am on Wednesday.
Ms Scott had gone to Leeton High School on Easter Sunday to make sure her Drama and English lessons were in place for her substitute while she enjoyed a Tahiti honeymoon.
When Ms Scott failed to return home, her family launched a frantic search.
“Stephanie Scott was struggling and trying to yell as Vincent Stanford was dragging her towards the store room”, the facts read.
However, he described his selling of rings as utterly appalling and inexcusable.
The sentence angered one supporter of Ms Scott’s family, who called Stanford a “piece of shit” as he left the courtroom.
Detective Clark said he asked Stanford where the photos came from.
Merrilyn Scott told a court she had given the jewellery and another crossover ring to her daughter following her graduation from university.
During a sentencing hearing, the court heard that Marcus Stanford had received two of Ms Scott’s rings and her driver’s licence in the mail.
They also recovered a camera with pictures of Ms Scott’s burnt remains.
“Losing Stephanie has turned our lives upside down. a day has not passed that we have not shed a tear for our lovely daughter”.
His twin brother Vincent has pleaded guilty to the murder.
“Stephanie represented all that is good about human-kind”, she said.
Stanford used part of the proceeds to buy a plane ticket home after visiting his brother at Silverwater prison in Sydney.
He said that in hindsight he should have told South Australian police about the delivery.
He gave details of a telephone conversation between the brothers after Vincent Stanford was in custody in the Junee Correctional Centre during which Vincent said of an envelope sent to his brother containing the engagement ring, a cross over ring given to Ms Scott by her mother and Ms Scott’s drivers licence.
Over the next few days, he went about disposing of Ms Scott’s personal belongings in and around Leeton and Griffith.
Stanford had been planning to attack a 12-year-old student who lived close to the school and would regularly visit after hours but he came across Ms Scott instead.
Vincent Stanford then dumped her red Mazda in a field and took her body to Cocoparra National Park where he set it on fire.
According to the facts, Stanford came across Ms Scott as she prepared lessons at Leeton High School on Easter Sunday past year, April 5.
After that, Vincent returned home and told police he had been out “taking photographs”.
Marcus Stanford did not tell police about the items after learning about his brother’s crime, and sold the rings for $705 on May 21.
Sgt Clark told the hearing that after Ms Scott’s disappearance Vincent Stanford became a focus of their investigation because his alibi did not check out.
Police seized the camera and found that the last two images were of a burnt body.
On Wednesday, April 8, police brought Vincent Stanford in for questioning.
The twin brother of the man accused of killing NSW school teacher Stephanie Scott has been sentenced to jail for being an accessory to murder after the fact.
“As instructed they were sold to the lowest bidder, an act so mercenary, so full of greed and so damning”, Mrs Scott said.
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Merrilyn Scott told the court: ‘The vision of them (the rings) being removed from Stephanie’s gentle, loving hands sickens us and fills us with despair’.
