Youth Crime Laws
14 Jun 2022 3:11 PMMark Boothman
This petition is calling for an appeal to the unjust sentence handed down to a juvenile offender who killed a young couple and their unborn baby in the Redlands last year. If you agree, join the over 5,000 people who added their name to it over the weekend
https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/.../Petition-Details...
The petition also calls for changes to the Youth Justice Act to take action on Queensland’s growing youth crime crisis and to legislate breach of bail as an offence as another measure to help intervene earlier and do all we can to stop another tragedy like this.
If you haven’t seen the story, Matthew Field, Kate Leadbetter and their unborn son Miles were innocently walking their dogs on Australia Day last year when they were hit by an out-of-control stolen car. It was driven by a teenager who was drunk, high and out on bail.
He will only spend six years of a 10-year sentence behind bars and be free at the age of 23.
Matthew and Kate’s families rightly said the sentence was "grossly inadequate and not within the community's expectations”.
Sign the petition to do your part to make the State Government listen and take action.
