‘KILLED BY A COWARD’
Murder charge for teen caught with 45cm knife
THOMAS CHAMBERLIN
YOUTH CRIME CRISIS: MAN STABBED WALKING HOME

A BOY has been charged with murdering a Wilston man by stabbing him to death less than a kilometre from his home in the upmarket inner Brisbane suburb.

Detective Superintendent Andrew Massingham said the man, 43, was found by a member of the public about 1.40am, directly opposite the
Wilston train station, with critical injuries. He died at the scene despite paramedics trying to save him. Ninety minutes before the man was found
– just after midnight – police arrested two teens who had come to the attention of officers on a nearby stretch of Newmarket Rd.

The boy, 17, was allegedly found with a 45cm knife, described by Superintendent Massingham as “almost a small machete”, which was in a
sheath hidden beneath his clothing.

He said the boy and a teenage girl – who was not charged over the death – were taken to a “place of safety”, as is procedure when locating juveniles.

They were later arrested at that address after the stabbed man was found.

Superintendent Massingham said the crime scene was horrific. “These cowardly attacks are abhorrent, no place for them in society,” he said.

Opposition Leader David Crisafulli called on Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk – who returns from holiday today – to recall parliament to
debate “the youth crime epidemic”.

Time to put in place some serious consequences.

greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2023 at 10:32am:



Well the progressive softly softly counselling approach has been a dismal failure .....

the skyrocketing rate of juvenile crime is testament to that.

greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2023 at 10:47am:


It never has in the past, so why would it now?

Gnads wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2023 at 10:45am:


Yes, but do you believe harsher penalties will deter other would-be criminals?

Sophia wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2023 at 11:31am:


US states which have the death penalty have higher murder rates than those which don't.

There is no harsher penalty than death so if harsh penalties actually deterred crime, murder wouldn't exist in the countries which have capital punishment.

Do harsher punishments deter crime?

It’s easy to think that the threat of punishment will simply dissuade someone from doing the wrong thing. But it turns out that deterring would-be criminals by instilling doubt or fear of the consequences is more tale than truth.

“Deterrence is very largely an article of faith,” says UNSW Law Emeritus Professor David Brown. “I call it sentencing’s dirty secret because it’s just assumed that there is deterrence … but what the research shows is that the system has little to no deterrent effect.”

The criminal justice researcher says harsher punishments, such as longer prison sentences, not only do not prevent crime but may actually have the opposite effect.

“What research is increasingly showing is that imprisonment itself and punishment more generally is actually criminogenic – it makes it more likely that people are going to re-offend,” he says.