Teen killers of Janine Balding have received 'cruel, inhumane and degrading' punishment: UN

By Tom Allard
Updated November 22 2014 - 7:08am, first published 6:11am
Teen killers' life sentences attacked: A report in the <em>Herald</em> on June 23, 1990, on the trial of Matthew Elliott, left, who was 16, and Wayne Jamieson, who was 22, when they murdered Janine Balding, right, pictured with her fiance. Photo: Supplied
Teen killers' life sentences attacked: A report in the <em>Herald</em> on June 23, 1990, on the trial of Matthew Elliott, left, who was 16, and Wayne Jamieson, who was 22, when they murdered Janine Balding, right, pictured with her fiance. Photo: Supplied

The life sentences handed to two teenagers who committed one of the state's most notorious and abhorrent crimes are a "cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment", the United Nations has found.

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