{"id":46852,"date":"2022-07-29T13:29:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T04:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/29\/new-zealand-15-year-old-boy-receives-life-sentence-for"},"modified":"2022-07-29T13:29:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T04:29:55","slug":"new-zealand-15-year-old-boy-receives-life-sentence-for-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46852","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand: 15-year-old boy receives life sentence for murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The boy, 14 at the time of the offence, must spend at least 10 years in jail after stabbing 22-year-old Bram Willems to death<\/p>\n<p>A New Zealand court has sentenced a 15-year-old boy to life in prison for a murder committed when he was 14.<\/p>\n<p>The sentencing coincides with a separate legal challenge to the country\u2019s practice of giving children life sentences, which advocates argue is \u201charmful and ineffective\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legislation.govt.nz\/act\/public\/2002\/0009\/latest\/DLM136497.html\">New Zealand\u2019s sentencing laws currently presume a life sentence<\/a> for those found guilty of murder, unless it is \u201cmanifestly unjust\u201d to do so.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/29\/new-zealand-15-year-old-boy-receives-life-sentence-for\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The boy, 14 at the time of the offence, must spend at least 10 years in jail after stabbing 22-year-old Bram Willems to deathA New Zealand court has sentenced a 15-year-old boy to life in prison for a murder committed when he was 14.The sentencing coin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46853,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46852\/revisions\/46853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}