Emma Lovell murder trial: judge to decide fate of alleged accomplice in Brisbane home invasion stabbing

Accused teenager’s lawyer argues that while he may be found guilty of breaking into North Lakes home, he should be acquitted of murder and assault

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The fate of an alleged accomplice in the December 2022 stabbing murder of Emma Lovell that shocked Queensland now rests in the hands of a judge after a three-day trial ended on Wednesday.

Prosecutors did not argue that the accused teenager – who cannot be named for legal reasons as he was 17 years old on the night Lovell died of a stab wound to the chest on the front lawn of her home in North Lakes, north of Brisbane’s CBD – ever wielded that fatal knife.

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