A teenager who stabbed a British mother to death after breaking into her home in Australia has been jailed for 14 years.

Emma Lovell, 41, was killed when confronting two intruders in Brisbane on Boxing Day in 2022.

She had emigrated from Suffolk in 2011 with her daughters and her husband Lee, who was also injured in the attack.

The offender, who cannot legally be named as he was 17 at the time, pleaded guilty to her murder earlier this year.

He also admitted to three other burglary and assault charges.

Now aged 19, he was sentenced at Brisbane’s Supreme Court on Monday afternoon local time.

Justice Tom Sullivan concluded that Ms Lovell’s murder was a “particularly heinous” crime.

The Lovells had been “a loving family” building a life for themselves in a new country, he said.

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