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Teenager fights jail sentence over murder of disabled Central Victorian man John Bourke

The Supreme Court sentenced the teenage boy to a maximum 14 years in prison. (ABC News: Karen Percy/File)

A teenage boy found guilty of murdering a Central Victorian man with a disability in his home during July 2018 is fighting the nine-year minimum jail sentence handed to him by the Supreme Court of Victoria last year.

The March 2020 trial heard the then 15-year-old boy and a 17-year-old co-accused had gone to John Bourke's house while at a party nearby.

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