Teenager who was convicted of having killed friend was “dependent on knife stitching,” hears the court

• Abdullahi Ahmed Iyow, 19, died a month after he repeatedly became stabbed by a friend in the southern Brisbane suburb Acacia Ridge.
• An 18-year-old man appealed guilty to the killing at Brisbane Supreme Court on Monday 7 April.
• “I was addicted to knife stick because of my previous trauma,” the teenager said in a report in advance.

A teenager in Australia has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after invoking himself guilty of staking his friend under “practically unprovated circumstances”, according to several reports.

The 18-year-old defendant, who cannot be named because of youth law because he was 17 at the crime, stabbed Abdullahi Ahmed Iyow three times in the abdomen with a large hunting knife on May 17, 2024, Sydney Morning Herald and ABC News reported.

The incident took place around 14:30 local time in the southern Brisbane suburb Acacia Ridge. Iyow was rushed to the hospital and underwent surgery but died next month due to infection and organ failure, the stores dedicated.

On Monday, April 7, justice Rebecca Treston told Brisbane Supreme Court that the defendant had stacked his friend after a change where Iyow broke his phone. “It could hardly be considered to have provoked your answer. (The victim) was on the ground when you repeatedly stacked him,” she said per Sydney Morning Herald. “You added violence when the victim did not fight back.”

The defendant – who will have to serve 70% of his sentence in jail, according to Sydney Morning Herald – had complained that the damage to his phone would cause him to lose his drug trafficking, ABC reported.

The court heard that he physically attacked Iyow and pressed him to the ground before helping him back up. Crown lawyer Chris Cook said moment later, teenager staked Iyow several times for “no legitimate reason.”

CCTV pictures that were played in court show that the couple went together in a park before the teenager began to wave the knife around, according to the outlet. Police car films also captured Iyow, which was moving on the grass when the teenager was then arrested.

“This was a violent murder that occurred in broad daylight,” said Cook Per ABC.

Justice Rebecca Treston regarded the teens’ crime as particularly ‘disgusting’ 9 News reported.

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Justice Treston said that the defendant arrived in Australia at the age of seven after his family fled from war -driven Somalia. He had been diagnosed with severe conduct disorder and anti -social characteristics, per 9 News. The teenager was not in education or was hired at the murder.

The court also heard that he was a daily user of cannabis and prescription medicine. The defendant was reportedly intoxicated during the attack.

The teenager did not have a previous criminal history but told a psychiatrist that he was previously involved in gang crimes, according to ABC, including a kidnapping event.

In a report in advance, the court heard that the teenager admitted that he thought the fighting was “entertaining” and that knife -knitting people were “happy”, the outlet reported.

“I was addicted to knitting because of my previous trauma,” the report quoted him and said Per ABC.

His punishment comes after he guilty of murdering Iyow and other crimes, including threatening violence against a member of the public trying to intervene.

He was to be sentenced last week, but procedures were postponed when he was attacked in the dock.

One of Iyow’s brothers was accused of abuse after the incident, and this must be taken into account in the judge’s judgment.

“The protection of society is a matter of great importance in a case like this,” Treston said.