The teen stabbed Ahmed Iyow repeatedly with a large hunting knife by the side of the road in the southern Brisbane suburb of Acacia Ridge at 2.30pm on May 17 last year.<\/p>\n
READ MORE:<\/strong> Liberal candidate who called herself a 'renter' admits to owning properties<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Ahmed Iyow died in hospital the next month due to infection and organ failure.<\/p>\n Justice Rebecca Treston said the teen had stabbed his friend in "virtually unprovoked circumstances" after an altercation in which Ahmed Iyow broke his phone.<\/p>\n "It could hardly be considered to have provoked your response. [The victim] was on the ground when you repeatedly stabbed him," she said.<\/p>\n "You inflicted violence when the victim did not fight back."<\/p>\n The teen had complained that he would lose his drug dealing contacts as a result of damage to his phone.<\/p>\n Justice Treston told the teen he had taken the life of a joyful young man and left his family with a devastating loss.<\/p>\n She said she took the alleged events of Monday last week into account, where the teen was allegedly assaulted in court.<\/p>\n The teen was due to face sentencing that day when a 22-year-old man allegedly stabbed him with a pen in the back before being restrained by court security.<\/p>\n The teen also pleaded guilty to possession of a knife in a public place and threatening violence.<\/p>\n The teen threatened a nearby resident who tried to break up the fight with Ahmed Iyow.<\/p>\n READ MORE: \ufeff<\/strong>Bondi Junction stabbing inquest expanded to media coverage of tragedy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Justice Treston said the teen had been diagnosed with severe conduct disorder and anti-social traits.<\/p>\n He had arrived in Australia as a seven-year-old after his family fled war-torn Somalia.<\/p>\n He started using drugs and alcohol from grade 7 at school and was soon began selling drugs and became immersed in gang culture.<\/p>\n The teen was isolated and not attending school or employment at the time of the murder.<\/p>\n Justice Treston said the teen later told a psychiatrist he "found stabbing people enjoyable".<\/p>\n "The protection of the community is a matter of great significance in a case like this," Justice Treston said.<\/p>\n She said she had no option but to regard the teen's offending as particularly heinous, with a sentence of up to 14 years.<\/p>\n "Context of gang violence and prevalence of knife offences leading to needless deaths calls for significant punishment," she said.<\/p>\n The teen will be required to serve 70 per cent of his 12 years in detention.<\/p>\n The 22-year-old man accused of assaulting the teen in court is due to face Brisbane Magistrates Court on April 10.<\/p>\n DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP<\/strong><\/a>: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. Available on the<\/strong> Apple App Store<\/strong><\/a> and<\/strong> Google Play<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A teenager has been sentenced to more than eight years' detention after his previous court appearance was interrupted by being allegedly assaulted by someone related to his victim. The 18-year-old defendant, who cannot be named as he was aged 17 years and eight months at the time of the offence, pleaded guilty in Brisbane Supreme […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1135,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions\/1135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Brisbane](\"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cabe4c36-5a16-46d1-8be4-b624eb8a379a-scaled.jpg\")
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