Two youngsters have been discovered responsible of the stabbing homicide of 15-year-old Angus Beaumont in Queensland's Moreton Bay area.
A Brisbane court docket heard Angus had been concerned in a avenue brawl with two 14-year-old boys when he was stabbed within the coronary heart in Redcliffe, north of Brisbane, on March 13, 2020.
The court docket heard the 2 youngsters had adopted Angus and his pals after that they had purchased hashish from one of many boys.
They had been armed with knives whereas Angus was carrying a knife and knuckle-dusters.
Angus had been making an attempt to assist a good friend flee the pair on the time of the assault.
"It doesn't matter what the lead-up was, they robbed and killed my son," Angus' father Ben Beaumont mentioned.
His mom Michelle Liddle mentioned: "Our son, if he had have lived, he would have been in bother, he would have been grounded, we'd have drove him as much as the police station, he would not have been allowed out once more.
"However we do not have that luxurious."
The court docket heard the 2 14-year-olds high-fived one another as they fled the scene.
"I did not see any high-fives in there at this time," Beaumont mentioned.
The court docket heard each younger offenders had prior legal histories.
Because the pair had been discovered responsible, supporters of the youngsters sobbed and yelled, with the mom of one of many teenagers shouting "I do know you're harmless" to her son.
A sentence might be delivered within the coming weeks.
Angus' household is becoming a member of a rising refrain for the tightening of Queensland's youth justice legal guidelines and harsher penalties for younger offenders.
The utmost penalty for underage offenders is 10 years, until the choose guidelines against the law is very heinous.
The youngsters concerned cannot be recognized underneath youth justice legal guidelines.
Beaumont mentioned the household is getting ready for the likelihood their son's killers might be out in a number of years.
"The legal guidelines have to vary to imprison these kids, these violent offenders," he mentioned.
Liddle mentioned the pair weren't given the chance to see their son develop up.
"He is gone and he isn't coming house," she mentioned.