Prosecutors successfully apply to withdraw the charge related to alleged stabbing at Footscray
Murder charge dropped against 12-year-old girl arrested over Melbourne deathAustralian Associated PressA 12-year-old girl accused of killing a woman in Melbourne’s inner west will no longer face a charge of murder.
“It was the director’s position that there were not reasonable prospects of conviction in this matter because the prosecution would not have been able to rebut the presumption of doli incapax,” they said. The neighbours had called triple zero after being woken up about 1.30am by a noise and finding the 12-year-old crying in the hallway.
A knife was allegedly found in the victim’s hand, with a pair of bloodied white sneakers next to the body.
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