Husband Left Stunned as Youth Acquitted of Murder of Emma Lovell
Published on October 31, 2024
The shattered husband of a woman fatally stabbed in a Boxing Day home invasion has expressed disbelief after a youth was acquitted of murder, calling it a “joke.” Mother-of-two Emma Lovell, 41, was stabbed to death on the lawn outside her North Lakes home, north of Brisbane, in December 2022. The attack occurred during a home invasion carried out by two 17-year-old boys. One of the youths, now aged 18, pleaded not guilty to murder at a judge-only trial in the Brisbane Supreme Court. Justice Michael Copley on Oct. 31 found the teen not guilty of murder and the alternative charge of manslaughter as well as malicious act with intent and wounding....