Teenager pleads guilty to murder of Vyleen White in case that sparked Queensland’s ‘adult crime, adult time’ laws
by Australian Associated Press from World news | The Guardian on (#6YT1P)
White, 70, was stabbed to death during a 2024 suspected carjacking, triggering the Crisafulli government's controversial laws
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A teenager has pleaded guilty to murdering a grandmother in an attack that helped spark landmark law reforms.
The 16-year-old boy was charged after Vyleen Joan White, 70, was fatally stabbed in a suspected carjacking outside a Redbank Plains shopping centre, west of Brisbane, in February 2024.
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