Two alleged child killers have refused to attend court after police revealed plans to swab for their DNA, a court has been told.

The two boys, who cannot be named due to their age, were due to appear in a Children’s Court on Friday, three weeks after they were charged with murder.

Instead, the court was told, the pair refused, with Youth Justice, the government agency tasked with managing young people in the criminal justice system, offering only encouragement to ensure their attendance.

The two teenagers were among eight people charged last month over stabbing murders of Dau Akueng, 15, and Chol Achiek, 12, in Cobblebank on September 6.

Police allege the victims were walking home from a basketball game when they were ambushed by a group of masked people wielding machetes and long-edge

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