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Australia’s youngest convicted murderer could walk free from prison within days despite breaching a court order by talking to a mother dressing her young child at a beach. The 37-year-old man, who cannot be legally named or identified, was sentenced in August 2002 to spend 20 years behind bars for the murder of three-year-old Courtney Morley-Clarke. He was 13 years and 10 months old at the time of the killing.
On Monday, he was sentenced at Wollongong District Court to a maximum prison sentence of one year and six months with a non-parole period of one year and one month for the single breach. Judge William Fitzsimmons found jail was the only appropriate sentence given the man’s prior refusal to comply with orders imposed for the community’s safety.
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