Tensions have boiled over in a Melbourne courtroom moments after the teenager who stabbed university student Laa Chol in the chest at a party was jailed for 20 years.
Screams and thuds were heard from the Supreme Court room on Friday morning and a woman was walked out by police officers with her hands behind her back shortly after.
The commotion broke out minutes after the 18-year-old was sentenced to 20 years’ jail, with a non-parole period of 15 years, for the 2018 murder of Ms Chol.
The then 17-year-old boy gatecrashed the party at the CBD’s EQ apartment tower and Ms Chol kicked the intruders out after noticing her mobile phone was missing.
A violent scuffle ensued, with Ms Chol fatally stabbed in the chest in the building’s lift lobby.
“Your senseless and vicious crime has deprived her of the most basic right, the right to life,” Justice Stephen Kaye told the teenager.
“Your actions were utterly cowardly and callous.”
The teen, who cannot be named because he was underage at the time, went to trial arguing he did not intend serious harm.
But a jury did not believe his claims and in September convicted him of murder.
After she was stabbed, Ms Chol stumbled back into the apartment and collapsing.
Her friends initially thought she was having an asthma attack, but Ms Chol’s heart had been pierced by the knife.
She was dead by the time paramedics arrived and the knife has never been found.
-AAP
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