Overview
- A package of measures reported on Monday would make teenagers who are convicted of being hired killers eligible for custodial sentences under new laws proposed by NSW lawmakers.
- The proposals follow two mistaken-identity fatal shootings last week that politicians and police cite as the catalyst for tougher rules aimed at contract-style gang violence.
- Those measures remain proposals and have not been passed into law, with debate focusing on how to prove a youth was acting as a hired perpetrator and how to hold adult recruiters to account.
- Separately, police are investigating a developing case in Sydney’s Inner West where a teenager is fighting for life after being allegedly stabbed while attempting to collect a debt.
- The same day’s coverage also included a lighter entertainment item about radio host Kyle Sandilands taking a video call from a Townsville sex shop owner, showing the mix of hard news and culture in reporting.