The former teen from Young and his accomplice who were charged with the brutal stabbing death of Caltex service station employee Zeeshan Akbar refused to appear via audio-visual link in children’s court on Wednesday.
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The two boys, who were residing in Queanbeyan, aged 15 and 16, were both charged with murder, robbery, wounding with intent to cause bodily harm, aggravated break and enter and aggravated car theft.
Their lawyers objected to the Director of Public Prosecutions request for further forensic testing, but this application was approved by Magistrate Michael Antrum in the Queanbeyan Children's Court.
The teens will now have their mouths swabbed for DNA investigations, as well as photographs and measurements taken of them for biometric testing.
Suppression orders restricting the reporting of the case were lifted.
Magistrate Antrum instead made an order prohibiting the boys being identified, common practice in cases involving minors.
The two are next due to appear in the Queanbeyan court on October 25.
The two teenagers were arrested over a fatal stabbing and crime spree across Queanbeyan ending in them been charged and extradited to NSW.
In a lethal rampage spanning 14 hours the two teens allegedly killed a man, stabbed another and brutally attacked a third with a tyre iron back in April.
NSW Police Force Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burns said there was some evidence the spree could be terror-related or linked to drugs.
"We have two teenagers in custody and sufficient information to believe the actions of one of those teenagers may be related to terrorism," she said.
"That information comes from physical evidence at the scene and other sources."
Suppression orders restricting the reporting of the case were lifted. Magistrate Antrum instead made an order prohibiting the boys being identified, common practice in cases involving minors.
- Canberra Times