When police knocked on David Fryer's door in April 2014, he wasn't worried.
Officers sometimes came to his home to speak about work his security company was doing.
When they asked him to sit down, his heart sank.
"Not my Kaileigh," he thought when he was told his daughter had died in a car crash.
"My head dropped and my heart ripped in two."
Kaileigh had been thrown from a car driven by her good friend Michael John Severino, after it rolled while he was speeding through Terrey Hills in the early hours of April 9, 2014.
They had been at a hotel in Manly before and the court heard neither was wearing a seat belt.
About an hour-and-a-half after the crash, prosecutors allege Severino recorded a blood alcohol reading of 0.161.
Severino pleaded not guilty to causing the crash that resulted in the death of Ms Fryer, 19, but was earlier this month found guilty by a jury.
His lawyer suggested he wasn't the one behind the wheel, but the crown said he admitted to being the driver when questioned by emergency services and members of the public as the dust from the accident was still settling.
On Monday, Ms Fryer's shattered family gave victim impact statements at Severino's sentence hearing in the Sydney District Court.
Her father David said he sometimes thinks she is away from home, pursuing her dreams and working hard, but then remembers the horrible truth.
He will never walk her down the aisle, listen to music, laugh or have conversations about life's big and small issues with her again.
"My family is shattered and torn," he said.
Her emotional mother Michelle told of the daily struggles she now faced.
"Nothing will ever be the same," she told the court.
Kaileigh was the rock of the family who phoned her mother every night, her older sister Stacey Valentine said.
"There was nothing more in the world that you needed when Kaileigh was there," she said.
Severino, 25, also spoke on Monday, apologising to the family, and saying he wished he could take the place of the woman he considered his little sister.
After a brief hearing, he was taken into custody before being sentenced later this month.
The court heard it's likely that he will receive a full-time custodial sentence.
"He deserves everything he gets," Mr Fryer said outside the court.
"No sentence is going to be long enough. He'll meet his maker as the coward he is."
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