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Ballarat man sentenced to 28 years’ jail for murder of Hannah McGuire
Young was sentenced to 28 years with a non-parole period of 22 years and four months after strangling and burning his former partner's body to conceal the murder.
- On Tuesday in Ballarat's Supreme Court, Lachlan Young, 23, was sentenced to 28 years' jail with a non-parole period of 22 years and four months.
- Against a backdrop of escalating control, Lachlan Young repeatedly assaulted Hannah McGuire and called her 129 times in less than 24 hours after their break-up.
- On April 5, 2024, Young strangled Hannah McGuire, 23, in their Sebastopol bathroom, placed her body in her orange Mitsubishi Triton ute, drove to Scarsdale and set the vehicle alight while sending texts to fake a suicide.
- In the Ballarat courtroom, family and colleagues gasped 'yes' as the sentence was read and Debbie McGuire said `I will never forget, and I will never forgive`.
- Having already served 589 days of pre‑sentence detention, Young changed his plea eight days into the trial after damning evidence, while Victoria's standard sentence for murder is 25 years with life as maximum.
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Ballarat man sentenced to 28 years’ jail for murder of Hannah McGuire
A judge said Lachlan Young had committed a brutal and “extreme act of domestic violence” when he strangled his former partner and burned her body in a ute.
·Sydney, Australia
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