Australia’s youngest convicted murderer who stabbed a toddler through the heart when he was just 13 approached a woman dressing her baby at a beach and asked her: 'Is dad around?' He had been released from jail in 2023, despite experts warning he would commit more violent sexual crimes. Aged 13, SLD stabbed neighbour Courtney Morley Clarke, 3, through the heart as she slept on her bed. He approached two mothers at the Wollongong beach with their young daughters and asked: 'Hi, I just got out of jail. Police arrested SLD, who told Wollongong Local Court the next day the encounters were 'incidental'.

Source: Daily Mail March 25, 2026 12:47 UTC