Husband Left Stunned as Youth Acquitted of Murder of Emma Lovell

Mother-of-two Emma Lovell, 41, was stabbed to death on the lawn outside her North Lakes home, north of Brisbane.

A police vehicle and tape in Cairns, Australia, on Dec. 19, 2014. Ian Hitchcock/Getty Images

The shattered husband of a woman fatally stabbed in a Boxing Day home invasion has expressed disbelief after a youth was acquitted of murder, calling it a “joke.”

Mother-of-two Emma Lovell, 41, was stabbed to death on the lawn outside her North Lakes home, north of Brisbane, in December 2022.