The 17-year-old who threw a piece of concrete at a pregnant mother at a car park in Perth’s south, resulting in her death, has been sentenced to five years behind bars.
Diane Miller was 20 weeks pregnant when she was killed on November 29. She had been out to get dinner with her partner Phillip Edmonds, their baby son Lloyde and her three nieces, when the family was caught up in a violent brawl at Waterford Plaza in Karawara.The youth guilty of the manslaughter, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was sentenced in Perth District Court on Friday, after details of the attack were revealed on Thursday afternoon.
CCTV footage then shows the group grabbing weapons including glass bottles and stools. The fight soon abated, and the group began to disperse, but the 17-year-old was across the road.He did not realise the others had stopped and found a “lump of concrete” weighing almost 2 kilograms, hid behind a wall and threw it at Miller, who was sat in the passenger seat of the car as the family began to drive away, hitting her on the head.Her unborn baby, Leroy, also died.
“I have never been the same, I have lost all happiness ... My mental health has deteriorated significantly … I do not go out of my house anymore … the offender took my life away.” “You were impulsive and disinhibited. You did not think about the consequences of what you were doing,” he said.
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