Crime by Jessica Marszalek, Thomas Chamberlin 1st Feb 2021 4:55 AM
Premium Content  Juvenile delinquents on bail should be fitted with GPS trackers and immobilisers made mandatory in cars according to frustrated police, as top brass launched an extraordinary broadside at parents using cops as babysitters . A day after Commissioner Katarina Carroll announced police would be taking their ideas for law reform to the Palaszczuk Government, Police Union president Ian Leavers said fitting youth on bail with GPS trackers could help stem the state s youth crime crisis overnight. Strengthening youth bail laws and increasing prison sentences will work, Mr Leavers wrote in a powerful opinion piece in The Courier-Mail.
Queensland has a youth crime problem and the laws in place to bring it under control are ineffective, aided and abetted by a lame duck judiciary. The alleged murders of Kate Leadbetter and Matt Field by a 17-year old male in a stolen car has placed a laser-like focus on the inadequacy of the state s youth justice laws. But the raw crime statistics on teenage delinquency and car theft among juveniles demonstrates a much wider malaise. Numbers crunched for this column, taken from official Queensland police statistics, reveals a 61 per cent increase in the crime of unlawful use of a motor vehicle.
Queensland has a youth crime problem and the laws in place to bring it under control are ineffective, aided and abetted by a lame duck judiciary. The alleged murders of Kate Leadbetter and Matt Field by a 17-year old male in a stolen car has placed a laser-like focus on the inadequacy of the state s youth justice laws. But the raw crime statistics on teenage delinquency and car theft among juveniles demonstrates a much wider malaise. Numbers crunched for this column, taken from official Queensland police statistics, reveals a 61 per cent increase in the crime of unlawful use of a motor vehicle.
Queensland mum fighting to keep juvenile offenders in custody for longer
A Queensland mother is fighting to keep juvenile offenders in police custody for longer after her son was allegedly stabbed to death by two teenagers out on bail.
Michelle Liddle s son Angus Beaumont was stabbed to death allegedly by two 14-year-olds out on bail for similar offences. I wanted to know if at any point Angus had., Ms Liddle tells 9News before being overcome with emotion.
Angus Beaumont.(Supplied) If he d breathed on the way to hospital, anything.
It s the same system that let down Queensland couple Kate Leadbetter and Matty Field and their unborn son Miles.