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NSW:Australia's youngest murderer handed more jail time

Australia's youngest convicted murderer has been handed more time behind bars after a judge found him to have had complete disregard for his release conditions.

The man, known for legal reasons as SLD, has spent almost two-thirds of his life in jail after the then 13-year-old abducted and fatally stabbed his three-year-old neighbour Courtney Morley-Clarke on the NSW Central Coast in 2001.

The now 39-year-old pleaded guilty to five counts of breaching his supervisory orders and two charges relating to child abuse material.

After declaring "this is doing my head in", Judge Paul Johnson wrestled with the sentencing arithmetic handwritten on a piece of notepaper.

He eventually deputised a barrister armed with a calculator before pronouncing a final sentence of four years and six months' imprisonment.

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