Ms Lovell was fatally stabbed on her front lawn after confronting two 17-year-old boys who had broken into her North Lakes house on Boxing Day in 2022.
A second teenager charged over the home-invasion murder of south-east Queensland woman Emma Lovell has been acquitted by a judge.
The second teenage boy, who cannot be named and was charged as a party to that offending, faced a three-day judge-only trial in Brisbane last week.It was not contested that the teenager had unlawfully entered the Lovell's home, and it was agreed he did not personally perpetrate any violence toward the couple.To find him guilty, the prosecution had to prove beyond reasonable doubt he first formed a common intention to break into the home with his co-defendant while armed.
The case against the teen centred on whether he was aware his co-defendant was carrying a knife at the time of the break and enter.In the vision, the pair are seen approaching the Lovell's front door and the teenager on trial was ahead of the main offender.Prosecutors alleged this was the moment the second teenager on trial would have seen the knife.
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