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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Ben Smee and Andrew Messenger

Stabbed in front of her granddaughter, Vyleen White’s death sparks racial tension in Queensland

Queensland police at a memorial site to Vyleen White in Redbank Plains, Ipswich
Queensland police at a memorial to Vyleen White, 70, at the Town Square shopping centre in Redbank Plains, Ipswich. She was fatally stabbed in a carpark and a 16-year-old boy has been charged with murder. Photograph: Darren England/AAP

One way out of Redbank Plains is via the prisons. There are six of them built side-by side along the motorway back to Brisbane. The two youth detention centres rarely have spare beds.

On Thursday at the African village centre at Redbank Plains, one by one, women from the local community approach Beny Bol and ask to speak to him privately. They are weeping.

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