Queensland’s Attorney-General has launched a High Court bid to keep the killer of Brisbane mother Emma Lovell behind bars.

The teenager who murdered the mother of two during a Boxing Day home invasion had his 14-year jail sentence reduced by almost 18 months on appeal last month, leaving him with a little over five years to serve behind bars.

Emma Lovell was killed and her husband Lee was injured during the confrontation at their North Lakes home on Boxing Day in 2022.

The boy, who cannot be named as he was aged 17 at the time of the murder, fatally stabbed Lovell in the heart after he broke into her family’s house north of Brisbane about 11.30pm on Boxing Day in 2022.

Immediately following the teenager’s appeal, Attorney-General Deb Frecklington said she would consider trying to ove

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