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By AIDAN KNIGHT AND BLAKE METCALF-HOLT   LATROBE Valley’s Gordon family has seen justice, as one of the young men who murdered Doctor Ashley Gordon as part of a home invasion last year, was sentenced to 17 years’ prison time. Gordon was killed while chasing a group of boys in Doncaster who had broken into his place of residence on January 13, 2024, after being stabbed 11 times. The group were attempting to steal Gordon’s Mercedes AMG. The boy who committed the stabbing cannot be named because of his age at the time of the crime, but is understood to be the son of a Victoria Police investigator, and was found guilty in Melbourne’s Supreme Court on June 25, 2025. The unnamed perpetrator pleaded not guilty, while admitting to two counts of aggravated burglary, and faced sentencing on December 2. He had claimed early on that he acted only out of self-defence, which was quashed by Justice Amanda Fox. An accomplice, also 16 at the time of the killing, was initially being charged with the same, but no public record is available as to the outcome of the co-accused. All that is known is that he was transferred to the Children’s Court (from the Supreme Court) on February 14, 2025. The Express asked the Children’s Court for comment but has not received a response to date. Justice Fox said during the sentencing, “if he had not had a knife, Dr Gordon would be alive,” before handing down the verdict, which contains a 12-year non-parole period. The convicted is in the process of an application to the adult parole board, appealing to serve this time in a youth detention centre rather than an adult prison, despite now being of legal age. His defence argues that this would give the convicted the best chance of successful rehabilitation, claiming “early signs of remorse” (as said in court on November 6). Gordon’s family rejected that characterisation. Dr Gordon’s sister, Natalie, said that the convicted showed not “one ounce of remorse” during the trial. Over the past 12 months, the Latrobe Valley community has channelled its grief into campaigning for changes to Victoria’s justice system, calling for stricter bail laws, expanded police stop-and-search powers, and the abandonment of plans to raise the age of criminal responsibility. The family’s petition, sponsored by Member for Morwell, Martin Cameron, gathered 9829 signatures before being tabled in the Legislative Assembly, contributing to the introduction of new stop-and-search powers passed in late 2024 and the creation of a specific offence for committing a crime while on bail. As the offender pursues his bid to serve time in a youth facility, the family awaits the parole board’s decision – a process that will determine where he spends the bulk of his sentence. For now, Justice Fox’s ruling closes one chapter of a case that has gripped the community for nearly two years, marking a decisive end to the court proceedings that began with Dr Gordon’s death.

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