US Edition'Insult': Appeal Upsets Slain Grandmother's Family
The 17-year-old appeals his 16-year sentence for a fatal stabbing during a carjacking, while the victim's family calls the challenge an insult to their trauma.
- On Tuesday, the teen's legal team lodged an appeal in Brisbane on two grounds before President Justice Debra Mullins and Justices John Bond and David Boddice, who reserved their decision.
- Hynes argued the sentencing judge erred, stating 'This is a case where there is a single stab with fleeting intention,' during the appeal hearing on Tuesday.
- CCTV shows how the teen approached the 70-year-old grandmother, demanded her car keys, inflicted a 'non-survivable' 17-centimetre wound, and stole her 2009 Hyundai Getz at Redbank Plains, as she tried to escape.
- Outside court, victims' advocates and family members reacted angrily as Victims 1st ambassador Lyndy Atkinson said, 'A precedent needed to be set and this was the right precedent to be set'.
- The teen was sentenced under previous laws in November 2025 to 16 years and is likely to be released in late 2033 after serving 60 per cent, since laws were not retroactive.
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'Insult': Teen killer's appeal upsets slain grandmother's family
A teenager who killed a grandmother and triggered landmark youth justice laws has appealed his sentence, devastating the victim's family.An advocate today said the boy's appeal was an insult to Vyleen White's traumatised family and there would be community outrage if the original sentence was not upheld.The boy was 16 years old when he fatally stabbed White during a carjacking outside a shopping centre west of Brisbane in February 2024.READ MORE…
Sydney Morning Herald
Family too upset to watch as Vyleen White’s killer appeals against sentence
The grandmother’s murderer was serving the highest sentence handed down in Queensland for a 16-year-old who killed via a single stab wound, the justices heard.
‘Insult’: appeal upsets slain grandmother’s family
A teenager who killed a grandmother and triggered landmark youth justice laws has appealed his sentence, devastating the victim’s family. An advocate on Tuesday said the boy’s appeal was an insult to Vyleen White’s traumatised family and there would be community outrage if the original sentence was not upheld. The boy was 16-years-old when he fatally stabbed Ms White during a carjacking outside a shopping centre west of Brisbane in February 2024…
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