A girl was sentenced to 14 years in jail for stabbing a European mother to death after breaking into her Australian home.
On Boxing Day, 2022, Emma Lovell, 41, was killed in Brisbane when she confronted two invaders.
She and her father Lee, both of whom were hurt in the attack, had moved from Suffolk in 2011.
The offender, who cannot legally get named as he was 17 at the time, pleaded innocent to her death earlier this year.
Then aged 19, he was sentenced at Brisbane’s Supreme Court on Monday noon local period.
When punishment Justice Tom Sullivan said Ms Lovell’s death was a “particularly horrible” violence.
The Lovells had been” a comforting home” building a career for themselves in a new land, he said.
They were regular members who were entitled to safety in their own homes and had a right to enjoy their families. What happened… violated that fully”.
The various alleged attacker has not yet entered requests, and his case is scheduled for reading in Brisbane later this month.
After being woken by their canines, the few confronted the teens, allegedly pushing them outside the home before grappling in their backyard.
There, Ms Lovell was fatally stabbed in the heart with an 11.5cm ( 4.5 inch ) knife.
When officers and paramedics arrived to find Ms. Lovell’s two young daughters sobbing over her mother’s body, they were responding to the invasion.
In an effort to keep Ms. Lovell’s life, doctors attempted to have her heart bypass performed on the home’s front lawn, but she passed away shortly after arriving at the hospital.
The attack in the suburb of North Lakes, about 45km ( 30 miles ) north of Brisbane was captured on a security camera.
The murderer should be sentenced to life in prison, according to Ms. Lovell’s home.
Although Queensland law requires the criminal to serve a lifetime word, the criminal has been sentenced as a child.
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28 December 2022
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