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Breaking: Lachlan Young sentenced to 28 years' jail for murdering Hannah McGuire
Hannah McGuire was 23 years old when she was murdered by her former partner. (Supplied: GoFundMe)
Lachlan Young has been sentenced to 28 years' jail for the murder of his former partner, Hannah McGuire.
Young, 23, killed Ms McGuire in April 2024, strangling her in their Sebastopol home before placing her body in her ute and setting it alight in bushland on Ballarat's outskirts.
Lachlan Young has been sentenced to 28 years' jail for killing his former partner, Hannah McGuire, in April 2024.
Young, 23, strangled Ms McGuire in their Sebastopol home, then placed her body in her ute and set it alight in bushland on Ballarat's outskirts, staging the scene to look like a suicide.
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A killer has been jailed for 28 years for murdering his ex-girlfriend, Hannah McGuire, and burning her body in a brutal attack in regional Victoria.
Lachlan Young, 23, looked straight ahead as justice James Elliott handed down the sentence in the supreme court in Ballarat on Tuesday.
Young will be eligible for parole after 22 years and four months.
He had initially denied murdering McGuire, claiming the 23-year-oldâs death was a spontaneous incident as he took the case to trial.
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Ballarat man sentenced to 28 years’ jail for murder of Hannah McGuire
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A Ballarat man who strangled his former partner Hannah McGuire to death before burning her body has been jailed for 28 years, with a judge describing his conduct as “brutal” and an “extreme act of domestic violence”.
Supreme Court Justice James Elliott said Lachlan Young’s murder of the Clunes woman was yet another case of an “innocent and defenceless” woman being killed by a man they had trusted.
Hannah McGuire, 23, was found dead in April 2024 in Scarsdale, near Ballarat.
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