The boy’s outburst came after the court was adjourned for lunch and came minutes after his lawyer told the court the teenager had expressed a desire to change. The boy was sentenced after lunch. The boy, who cannot be named, was on Monday afternoon ordered to spend three years in youth detention after pleading guilty to common assault and assisting an offender in a serious indictable offence over Ms Chol’s death, and other violent crimes dating back to 2017. Those other crimes included two armed robberies, and a series of affray offences while in youth detention, including one where he repeatedly jumped and stomped on another teenager's head, kicked another inmate while he was on the ground and punched a guard to the face after sneaking up from behind. He was 16 when he kneed, kicked and punched Ms Chol before and after she was stabbed, and was also on a youth supervision order. Laa Chol.

"This offending was an appalling disregard of court orders," the magistrate said. Ms Chol’s family members were clearly angered by the boy’s remarks at the lunch break and called out to him as he was escorted into custody by two police officers. Moments earlier, as the magistrate left the bench, the boy called out: "What the f--- you doing?" The magistrate had earlier asked if he wanted to say something when he reacted to a prosecutor's submission. After the hearing, Mr Kunyrith said the boy's sentence was inadequate, and that he feared the teenager would continue to pose a danger to the community once released.

"How many crimes he got now in that court? And he's gone for three years and then he can come back and kill anyone. Kill you and kill me and kill another one, again and again and again," he told The Age. "He's abusing me. He's saying rude words [to] me, with no apology. And in front of the family, no apology." Ms Chol was stabbed about 5.15am on July 21 last year, during a fight that started after she asked several boys to leave a party they gatecrashed in the EQ Tower on A'Beckett Street. Prosecutors say the younger boy fought with Ms Chol and then held her when the older boy stabbed her. The younger boy fought with her again after she had been stabbed, and afterwards took the knife from his friend. The knife was never recovered. Ms Chol died at the scene. After the lunch break on Monday, the boy’s defence lawyer said the first part of the hearing had been "a terribly onerous experience" for his client, and that his behaviour would not be repeated.



Ms Chol, from Pakenham, was a legal studies student and talented soccer player. On Monday, her parents spoke of the emptiness they felt since her death, and wondered how they would continue with their own lives. Mr Kunyrith said his life no longer had any purpose, that he felt "sick in the brain and heart" and that he hated being alone with his thoughts. "I don’t know how my family will survive now. There was hope but now there is nothing," he said in a statement read by a family friend. Ms Chol’s mother, Ojwanga Kwot Abalo, said her daughter’s death left her angry and sad, unable to work, struggling to care for herself and haunted by the question of why.

"She is not with me now. I don’t have my eyes and ears. She was everything to me. Home is now cold and before it was warm ... I will not get any good life now," Ms Abalo said in a statement read by the prosecutor. Some of Ms Chol’s friends said they no longer felt safe in Melbourne since the attack. The magistrate said the boy still had prospects of making something of his life, and acknowledged his admissions. The boy's mother said he felt guilty, embarrassed and ashamed over his crimes, the court heard. Media reporting cases in the children’s court cannot identify the accused, court officers, nor the court’s location.