Everyone knew Jordan Kenyon was going to kill someone – except the judges who continued to set him free. 

The career criminal and hoon had been terrorising the community for most of his life. 

He didn’t just kill anyone. 

The mindless loser took the life of a cherished 12-year-old girl. 

Mia Rossiter was known as a ‘beautiful soul’, ‘kind-hearted’. 

She loved anime, had ambitions to travel to Japan, and dreamed of becoming an author. 

Mia was due to turn 13 on January 25, 2024 – but she never made it. 

Her life was cut short just three weeks before she was to celebrate that milestone event with her family and friends. 

Jordan Kenyon during his unhinged rant behind the wheel three weeks before he killed Mia 

She died at the scene on the Hamilton Highway at Stonehaven – about 10km west of Geelong – after a vehicle driven by Kenyon collided with the family’s car.

Her mother Danica had been driving, her father Paul was in the front passenger seat asleep and Mia was in the back with her younger half-sister Willow, who was just seven.

The family had been heading home after dinner.

They had no idea that a maniac was about to destroy their lives. 

On Thursday, County Court of Victoria Judge Michael Tinney described Kenyon in that very way: ‘a maniac’. 

‘You were a maniac on the 14th of December,’ he told Kenyon.

The unhinged video of what Kenyon did just three weeks before that crash has made news across the globe. 

‘I’m the best f****ng designated drunk driver in the world,’ he ranted as he steered his car with his legs at high speeds through suburbia while chugging down a Jack Daniel’s and cola can. 

Mia Rossiter with father Paul Rossiter

‘Should we kill this c***?’ he asked his terrified mate in the passenger seat. 

‘Word, I’m gonna put it into a pole tonight. I will crash into a pole tonight,’ he continued. 

‘I don’t give a f***. I don’t give a f*** c***.’

It was an insane rant.

‘I nearly died then, but I f***ing love it,’ he continued. 

What Kenyon got wrong in those unhinged videos were predictions of his own death. 

‘I will die tonight,’ he muttered before launching into a furious tirade. 

‘F***king die tonight,’ he spat. 

The mangled remains of the deadly crash 

During that video, unsuspecting motorists could be seen driving head-on towards Kenyon never knowing how close to death they had come. 

Mia’s family had been in the courtroom when Judge Tinney sentenced Kenyon to a minimum jail term of just 12-years behind bars – one for every year Mia walked the earth surrounded by love. 

He has already spent close to three years behind bars awaiting ‘justice’, meaning he could walk in 2038 when Mia would have been aged 27.  

When Kenyon was removed from the prison dock, he couldn’t help but continue to mouth off in defiance. 

Mia’s father stood up and offered him a warning as old as the hills, but rarely carried out. 

‘Watch your back, see you when you get out,’ he told his daughter’s killer. 

During a long-winded sentence, Judge Tinney spelled out the obvious about Kenyon’s behaviour.   

‘It was really just a matter of time until you killed someone on the road,’ he said.

Jordan Kenyon was always causing trouble

‘It could have been anyone who was unfortunate enough to have crossed your path on that day.’

They were hollow words for Mia’s family, knowing all too well what authorities had known all along. 

‘He’ll come out and do it again. He’s proven that time and time again,’ Mr Rossiter told reporters outside court. 

‘They said that they knew he was speeding, that they knew he was on drugs and they knew he was drinking. Why is he still out and not locked up too.’

Mr Rossiter claimed Victoria’s justice system was broken. 

‘It comes down to the system as well I suppose.  They’ve let us down and they’ve let a lot of other people down as well. And the way it’s going it’s just going to keep letting everyone else down unless change happens somewhere,’ he said. 

Kenyon was on bail, wearing an ankle monitor and travelling 153km/h while ‘off his face’ on the drug GHB in the minutes before the fatal collision. 

He had fallen asleep when the crash occurred.

Mia Rossiter was known as a ‘beautiful soul’, ‘kind-hearted’.

He has never held a driver’s license.

Kenyon had only recently been released on parole after spending 5½ years in jail, posting a video to TikTok months earlier showing off his ankle bracelets.

‘While on parole, I’m going to show everyone how full on it is and how hard it is to make it in this society … being judged on what you’ve done,’ he said.

Court records indicated Kenyon had already come to the attention of police while free on parole, with a court listing in Sale scheduled at the time.

Kenyon’s shocking criminal history had been well documented over the years in his hometown of Geelong.

In 2019, Kenyon was jailed for a maximum of six years and one month after taking police on a wild pursuit through Geelong.

The Geelong Advertiser reported Kenyon attempted his getaway from police while on bail, driving a stolen Mercedes-Benz at 170km/h while swerving through traffic on the wrong side of the Surf Coast Highway.

The then 24-year old also drove at two police divisional vans, sped through the Geelong hospital emergency drop-off area, and broke into two homes, stealing $3000 worth of jewellery during a five-day rampage.

Jordan Kenyon had taken to social media in previous rants 

Kenyon had been fitted with a monitoring bracelet 

He had faced court on his 24th birthday, crying in the prison dock while pleading guilty to driving at police, dangerous driving while in a police pursuit, theft and driving while disqualified.

In handing down his sentence, County Court Judge Gerard Mullaly slammed Kenyon for his reckless behaviour.

‘What you need to understand as a fundamental fact is that this sort of behaviour will simply not be tolerated by the community,’ Judge Mullaly said.

‘No longer should young men full of drugs and misguided bravado thinking that getting into stolen cars and driving in a manner such as you did — as if it was just a video game — and drive at police who are trying to stop them, they should no longer consider that they will receive anything other than years imprisonment.’

Just years earlier, Kenyon had been jailed for six months over a crime rampage across Geelong.

He had been arrested after another wild police pursuit that involved police in an air-wing co-ordinating with officers on the ground.

Aged 22, Kenyon had been strung out on methylamphetamine when he committed smash-and-grab break-ins on 11 businesses, including cafes, a butcher, a garage, a bakery, a bottle shop, a pizza outlet, fish and chip shop and a hair salon.

Mia Rossiter with father Paul Rossiter and mum Danica Rossiter

Kenyon had already been serving out two community corrections orders at the time for other crimes.

He had been warned then too that he faced years behind bars if he didn’t change his wicked ways.

‘You’re going to have to turn this around. Only you can do this,’ Magistrate John Lesser told Kenyon then.

‘If you don’t get on top of your drug issues you’re going to be spending longer and longer in prison.’

Kenyon has been a thorn in the side of Geelong police for at least a decade.

In 2014, a detective told the Geelong Magistrates’ Court that between February 1 and February 24 there had been 176 burglaries in the Geelong area.

He said following Jordan Kenyon’s arrest on March 19 that year, the weekly figures had more than halved from 61 to 23, the Geelong Advertiser reported.

Two years later Kenyon was found in the backseat of a car with a baseball bat and a .22 rifle.

Outside court on Thursday, Mia’s mother Danica Rossiter described her ‘hate’ for the killer.

‘(She was) the light of my life – and I don’t wish this on anyone. I don’t hate many people,’ she said. ‘But there’s no words for the amount of hate I have for him’.