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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Blake Foden

'I feel ashamed': Remorseful kangaroo killers avoid convictions as jail terms overturned

The offenders deliberately killed numerous kangaroos. Picture by Sitthixay Ditthavong

A young man who slaughtered kangaroos just outside Canberra has expressed shame over his behaviour as he and three of his co-offenders successfully appealed full-time jail terms while dodging criminal convictions.

"I feel horrible about it. [The kangaroos] did not deserve what happened at all," the 20-year-old man told the Queanbeyan District Court on Friday, when Judge Tanya Bright upheld the quartet's appeals.

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