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Sentence of teen — who killed Katherine Leadbetter and Matthew Field in hit-and-run — challenged by attorney-general

Matthew Field and Katherine Leadbetter were killed in January 2021. (Supplied)

The sentence handed to a teenager who killed a Queensland couple and their unborn baby in a "revolting and offensive, beyond-the-norm" hit-and-run incident was "unjust and unreasonable" and should be increased, a lawyer for the attorney-general has argued.

In January 2021, Katherine Leadbetter — who was 24 weeks' pregnant — and her partner Matthew Field, died after they were struck by an out-of-control car at an intersection in Alexandra Hills, east of Brisbane.

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