A woman who lied about being raped to convince an ex-boyfriend to shoot dead the man she planned to marry has been jailed for 21 years.

Yu Tung Lo, 29, was found guilty by a jury in February of murdering Victorian father Paul Hogan in 2016, after manipulating another former fiance to do the killing in May 2016.

Lo incited Daniel Duhovic to kill the 48-year-old from Bacchus Marsh, taking steps prosecutors described as “highly manipulative and totally dishonest”.

media_camera Yu Tung ‘Tracey’ Lo arrives at the Victorian Supreme Court in Melbourne ahead of her sentencing. Picture: AAP Image/Ellen Smith

Justice Paul Coghlan on Friday jailed Lo for a minimum 17 years at the Victorian Supreme Court in Melbourne.

He said Lo was overheard by multiple people in the weeks before Mr Hogan’s murder, saying she wanted him dead, including in a message to Duhovic.

“Don’t talk silly stuff,” her ex-fiance responded to her message.

“Nah, I seriously want him dead,” she replied.

Lo also referred to Mr Hogan as “it” in the messages and told Duhovic Mr Hogan had beaten her, repeatedly raped her and threatened his daughter. She was previously engaged to Duhovic, and she and Mr Hogan had met with a marriage celebrant the day before his murder.

They planned to marry so she could stay in Australia.

media_camera Lo was overheard by multiple people in the weeks before Mr Hogan’s murder, saying she wanted her fiance dead.

On May 24, after alleging Mr Hogan had repeatedly attacked her, she contacted Duhovic and warned him to “be careful, he got witness”, then later “it’s leaving the house now with its witness”.

Lo directed Duhovic to where Mr Hogan was, in the back of a van. Mr Hogan was shot in the head at point blank range.

Duhovic and Lo fled after the shooting. He took the gun to be cleaned and she wiped her phone history in a failed attempt to delete messages. She went to hospital and was interviewed by police about her rape claims and alleged threats to kill her and her family in Hong Kong.

Lo denied knowing about Mr Hogan’s death.

“Very simply, you tried to lie your way out of your involvement in this crime,” the judge said.

Lo later admitted lying about never willingly having sex with Mr Hogan and about the last time she saw him, and pleaded guilty to perjury.

media_camera The Hong Kong woman told her ex Mr Hogan had raped and beaten her, referring to her fiance as ‘it’.

Justice Coghlan accepted the relationship was tumultuous but not that Lo was raped.

“I am satisfied you are a very manipulative person,” he said. He said while Lo wasn’t the shooter, she was the driving force. Mr Hogan’s mother Val Hogan broke down in court as the judge described the “pointless killing”.

Outside court, she said the sentence was the best she could hope for. “She was the ringleader, she lied so much,” she said. “I have to live with this for the rest of my life. I don’t get out on parole, I don’t get out on time served.”

The victim’s father Alan Hogan welcomed the sentence and described Lo as “selfish”.

“(She’s a) selfish little person and she’ll be punished for a long time,” he said.

Originally published as Rape lie woman jailed for inciting murder