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Newman teenager sentenced to eight years in jail for young motherâs murder
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A teenage boy who bludgeoned his partner to death with a rock and wheeled her body to hospital inside a bin in the Pilbara town of Newman will spend a minimum of three years and four months behind bars.
The 17-year-old will serve his sentence at Banksia Hill detention centre, where he has been in custody since May last year.
The teenager was sentenced in the WA District Court.
Boy fatally assaulted teenage mother-of-two in Newman before transporting her body in a wheelie bin
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The 18-year-old woman was murdered in May 2020 in WA s Pilbara region.
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A 17-year-old boy fatally assaulted a teenage mother of two in the Pilbara town of Newman and then took her body to hospital in a wheelie bin, the Perth Children s Court has heard.
Key points:
He took her body to hospital in a wheelie bin before alerting staff
His lawyer says the youth felt big shame for what he had done
The juvenile, who cannot be identified because of his age, pleaded guilty to murdering the 18-year-old woman in May last year, just two weeks after she gave birth to her second child.