A teenager has faced court charged with the alleged murder of a 71-year-old woman who was assaulted in her Perth home last year.

Police will allege the youth, who was 17-years-old at the time, broke into Oddette Feige’s Swan View home in the early hours of ‪October 31.

At the time police said one or more offenders entered her home, ransacked the house, assaulted her and stole her blue 2005 Hyundai Tucson.

Mrs Feige was rushed to hospital, where she died four weeks later ‪on November 29.

According to a death notice in The West Australian at the time, Mrs Feige and her late husband Bruce worked diligently for the welfare of Vietnam veterans.

The teenager, who cannot be named, made a brief appearance in the Perth Children’s Court on Wednesday morning after homicide squad detectives recently charged him with murder.

Wearing a black t shirt and no shoes, the murder charge was read to him but he was not required to plead.

The court was told the teenager - who is now aged 18 - also had “other matters” listed for a status conference on Wednesday but no further details were revealed in court about what they were.

His defence lawyer told the court bail had previously been refused in relation to the other matters.

The court was also told there was an application currently pending to move the teenager to an adult jail.

He is currently being held at Banksia Hill, a detention facility for young offenders.

The teenager will next face court via video link on February 19.