Declan Cutler was walking home from a party when a car load of gang members stopped and attacked him. A judge described the murder as one of the most haunting in Victorian history.
Four youths involved in the brutal, unprovoked murder of a 16-year-old stranger could each spend close to two decades in jail in what’s been described as one of the most confronting and haunting killings in Victorian history., Supreme Court Justice Rita Incerti found. Declan had no affiliation with either group and was simply walking home from a party when he was attacked in Reservoir in March 2022.
Shortly after midnight, Incerti said, a girl at the party arranged to have the 9ers members collect her, and told others at the party they were coming.Soon after, the girl recorded a conversation on her phone with another reveller where he said, “f--- the 9ers”, which she relayed to her friends in the car.
As they left, one of the group was heard yelling to a girl near the party: “He’s around there, he’s dead, Mum’s life, he’s dead.” She said the sheer ferocity of the attack only emerged later when an autopsy was conducted. That, she said, found Declan endured 56 sharp force injuries, 30 puncture wounds and 66 blunt force injuries caused by the stomps and kicks that rained down on him.
The parole board is expected to decide if the killers remain in youth detention until they turn 21, or are immediately transferred to adult prison.Two of the four teens were born overseas, and one arrived in Australia in 2005 as part of a refugee program. Another was born in Australia but spent his childhood overseas before returning to Australia as a teenager.
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