A 17-year-old youth has pleaded guilty to murdering an 18-year-old mother-of-two whose body was found stuffed in a wheelie bin in Western Australia last year.
The body of Bethany was found outside a hospital in the mining town of Newman on May 6, 2020, just four weeks after she gave birth to her second child.
Bethany was a Martu woman whose traditional lands cover 13.6 million hectares in central Western Australia.
The woman s body with severe head injuries was found outside the hospital in Newman, 1,178 kilometres northeast of Perth at 4am on Wednesday, May 6, last year
Police believe she may have been stoned to death before her body was placed inside the bin and dumped outside the medical facility.