Jason Langhans was trying to stop two boys from fighting at a 16th birthday when he was hit in the head and immediately collapsed.
at a 16th birthday party when one of them turned on him.
His attacker, who cannot be named, had gatecrashed the party in Tooradin, south-east of Melbourne, that evening in March 2021. "You were carrying a screwdriver to a party, which you were prepared to use as a weapon if there was any trouble," she said.Jason's supporters shouted from the Supreme Court public gallery, as they learnt the now-18-year-old killer could walk free from prison in two years."This is a courtroom if you can't behave appropriately, leave now."
The teen had suffered a traumatic upbringing, growing up around bombings in Afghanistan, fleeing to Pakistan, Indonesia and then arriving in Australia by boat, the judge said.He felt like a prisoner in a cage as he then spent two months at a Christmas Island detention centre and four months in Australian detention camps before settling in Geelong.
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