- Prosecutor needs two teenagers jailed for over 10 years
- Pair carried out an assault on Toutai Kefu and his household
- Courtroom heard extra particulars in regards to the assault on Tuesday
A pair of youngsters who invaded the house of Wallabies legend Toutai Kefu and stabbed him and his spouse have been informed their crimes had been in ‘the worst class’ in court docket.
The 2 teenagers, who had been aged 15 on the time they stormed into Kefu’s Brisbane residence, are within the second day of a sentencing listening to.
Crown Prosecutor David Finch informed the Supreme Courtroom that the duo had been ‘concerned as much as their eyeballs when it comes to inflicting violence on the family’.
The youngsters entered the house armed with massive knives with the aim of stealing vehicles.
‘A sentence larger than ten years in respect of every of the defendants could be acceptable,’ Mr Finch informed Justice Peter Davis.
Two teenagers who attacked Toutai Kefu and his household are in court docket
Kefu’s household residence was invaded in August 2021 with relations stabbed
Wallabies legend Toutai Kefu and his spouse Rachel (pictured) had been victims of a terrifying residence invasion that nearly left their household for useless in August 2021
‘It’s a stage of violence in the midst of an armed housebreaking which inserts the outline of the worst class,’ Mr Finch mentioned of the invasion that occurred within the early hours of August 15, 2021.
Rachel Kefu disturbed the intruders at 3.10am, along with her screams awakening her husband Toutai, who jumped over a banister from the upstairs bed room to defend his spouse.
Each youngsters attacked him, however just one was discovered to have stabbed him within the chest. The knife penetrated 25mm into his liver, inflicting a life-threatening damage.
The opposite assailant attacked Rachel, slicing her arm to the bone with a sickle after they provided him their automotive keys, giving them the chance to go away the house.
‘We would like the keys to the automotive or we are going to harm her,’ they mentioned on the time of the assault.
The couple’s son Joshua, who was 21 on the time, additionally suffered deep cuts to his again and arm, in addition to a dislocated shoulder, the place their 18-year-old daughter Madison’s hand was lower.
‘The sickle lower Mrs Kefu actually to the bone, so I imply fairly aside from the truth that it seems like a reasonably depraved weapon,’ Justice Davis mentioned.
‘The offender who was wielding the sickle retained that sickle all through,’ Mr Finch mentioned.
The court docket was unable to determine simply why the offenders turned to hardcore crime, though each spoke of their traumatic upbringings.
A prosecutor has referred to as for the 2 teenagers to be jailed for 10 years minimal
Pre-sentence psychological stories for each youngsters discovered that one mentioned he had beforehand ‘experimented with substances’ and had a risky residence life involving home violence between his mother and father.
The opposite mentioned his Tourette syndrome meant he was bullied at college and revealed he had suicidal ideas after experimenting ‘with substances’ and his lack of ability to play tennis attributable to an damage.
‘Definitely your honour there’s nothing in these stories that go to clarify how or why these two younger individuals with in any other case restricted contact with the justice system have engaged in offending behaviour of the extent of egregiousness that’s earlier than the court docket,’ Mr Finch mentioned.
A plea-deal meant that the pair’s preliminary cost of tried homicide was downgraded, with each pleading responsible to seven expenses together with housebreaking, illegal use of a motorized vehicle, in addition to 4 counts of malicious act with intent.
One of many offenders pleaded responsible to 2 extra expenses, together with the assault of a neighbour who went to their rescue through the assault.
One other two teenagers had been handed two-and-a-half years detention for his or her position within the violence, having been current in a stolen automotive on the time of the assault. One boy mentioned: ‘If somebody wakes up you simply stab them, to scare them, and make them hand over the keys for the automotive’.
The listening to will proceed on Tuesday afternoon, with submissions by Defence lawyer Daniel Caruana for one of many teenagers and barrister Laura Reece for the opposite defendant.
