Father asks killer Malcolm Naden, 'Why?' MICHAEL Peet had just one question as he faced his daughter's killer, Malcolm Naden: "Why?" "Lateesha trusted you ... she was family, she was blood ... and you betrayed her ... you took away her future," he said, staring at Naden sitting in the dock. Mr Peet's victim impact statement was read out on Wednesday to the NSW Supreme Court, which was packed with the family and friends of Lateesha Nolan and Kristy Scholes, who were murdered in 2005. Parents, aunties and brothers told Naden's sentence hearing of their ongoing grief and turmoil and how the 39-year-old had torn their families apart. Naden pleaded guilty last month to the two women's murders and a host of other charges, including the indecent assault of a 12-year-old girl and the attempted murder of a police officer. The former abattoir worker went on the run in 2005 - days after Ms Scholes was discovered strangled in the bedroom of his grandparents' house at Dubbo in NSW's northwest. Five months earlier, his cousin, Ms Nolan, had gone missing from the town. Ms Nolan's mother Joan said each year when the family lit a candle to mark her daughter's death, their grief was heightened because they had no burial place for Lateesha. How much torment and heartache can a mother take? I want to bring her home and lay her to rest," she said. Ms Scholes' father David said in the seven years before Naden was captured, he would wake and wonder if that was the day he'd would be caught. "I would sit up every night to listen to the police scanner," Mr Scholes said in a statement. I feel like I have let Kristy down. I think 'if only' ... but 'if only' is not going to bring her back. Naden's aunt, Janette Lancaster, described how his crimes had ruptured her family - pitting sisters against sisters and herself against her mother. If you can't trust family, who can you trust? Naden, dressed in prison greens with a bald head, stretched and scratched his beard but showed no emotion as the statements were read. When authorities finally captured and shackled him in March last year at Gloucester, in the Hunter Valley, it marked the end of one of the biggest manhunts in the state. Dubbed a "master bushman," Naden broke into several properties while on the run, snatching hundreds of items, including a semi-automatic rifle, five kilograms of raw cashews and a book titled Dreams. Justice Derek Price has adjourned his sentence hearing until next week.