March 24th 2023.
A 16-year-old who stabbed a Good Samaritan to death in Perth last year has averted a life prison sentence.
The adolescent, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was held accountable for the homicide of Petr Levkovskiy, 42, who was attacked at Bull Creek in May 2022.
The father-of-two passed away after he attempted to prevent the teenager from stealing a bike from a 10-year-old boy and was then viciously stabbed with an 18-centimetre filleting knife.
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He and his wife Anna had approached the thief, then aged 15, after they heard a commotion outside their home, and Levkovskiy's wound was 11 centimetres deep.
The teen was not given a life sentence today, instead receiving eight-and-a-half years in jail with a non-parole period of five-and-half years.
The initial two years of his sentence, while he is still a minor, will be served in juvenile detention.
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The boy's young age, regret and fairly good behaviour in custody had an effect on the sentence.
The court heard the teenage killer was a "good student in a stable family" before engaging with drugs and alcohol, setting him on a track of "a gangster lifestyle".
The judge stated the teen acted "immaturely, thoughtlessly and callously" and carried a knife around believing it was "cool and tough".
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Levkovskiy, an engineer, had moved his family from Russia a few years ago because he liked Australians.
Friends depicted him as a joy to all who knew him.
His wife was too grief-stricken to talk to media today as she fought back tears while leaving the sentencing.
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