Drunk driver Connor Mathiasson has been jailed for killing Elise Hodder. Photo: William Ton/AAP PHOTOS

A drunk driver will spend at least the next seven years behind bars for killing a young model.

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But Elise Hodder's heartbroken parents say they have been given a life sentence.

"Our Elise was one of the most beautiful, loving people that you can imagine," her father Michael Hodder said outside court on Monday after Connor Mathiasson was jailed.

"She has no life, she's got no future ... we, her family and friends, have got a life sentence. And this continues because of poor policy,

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