On Boxing Day in 2022, Emma Lovell was slain at North Lakes, Queensland, while thwarting two intruders.
A single stabbing wound to the heart claimed the life of the 41-year-old mother of two.
She moved to Australia in 2011 with her girls and her husband Lee, who also survived the attack, from Ipswich.
Her murder had been admitted to by the 17-year-old attacker, who, for legal reasons, cannot be identified.
At Monday’s Supreme Court in Brisbane, Judge Tom Sullivan sentenced the now-19-year-old, telling him that breaking into the residence was a “particularly heinous offence”.
Mrs. Lovell was characterized by the judge as “an active and cherished mother, wife, daughter, and sister.”
