A botched murder investigation left a family broken and a 15-year-old boy in jail for a year
Police used flawed identification evidence against a suspect in the 2019 stabbing of a Melbourne teenager, but deny the investigation was improperly conducted'
A 15-year-old boy was charged with murder and spent almost a year in custody after Victoria police detectives used a process described by a judge as corrupted" to gather evidence against him and disregarded information pointing to other suspects, a Guardian investigation has found.
The case then collapsed during a pre-trial hearing in which the judge said she was incredulous" that the prosecution was pushing ahead with it despite flaws in the evidence used to identify the boy as the murderer. She described police conduct in investigating the case as remarkable". The murder charge was later withdrawn.
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