Mournful mother questions the Premier after losing daughter in crash

The opposition has blasted the state government in the face of the youth crime crisis, as the mother of one of three people killed in a crash allegedly caused by a 13-year-old boy lashes out at the Premier.

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The opposition has blasted the state government for “giving up on Queenslanders” in the face of the youth crime crisis, as the mother of a 17-year-old girl who tragically died in a car crash allegedly caused by a 13-year-old lashes out at the Premier.

Opposition leader David Crisafulli on Friday morning called the current laws addressing youth crime “a joke”.

“Young criminals in stolen cars are taunting police, they aren’t running from the law, they are now running at it, it defies belief,” he said.

Deputy opposition leader Jarrod Bleijie also took aim at Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and police minister Mark Ryan.

“The government is in chaos, they are,” he said.

“The Premier has given up, she has given up on the job and given up on Queenslanders.

“Mark Ryan has been caught out lying, he would have everyone believe it is all hunky-dory but it is not. He cannot even ensure safe transport of bullet proof-vest.”

Speaking on Channel 9’s A Current Affair on Thursday night, Susan Marcus, the mother of Kelsie Davies - one of three women killed in the horror Maryborough crash - asked what her daughter’s life was worth to Annastacia Palaszczuk.

“I can’t believe that that little, little bastard, joy riding in that car she wouldn’t have known she would’ve been so scared when he smashed up behind her,” Ms Davies said.

“She wouldn’t have known what to do.”

Mother of Kelsie Davies Susan Marcus questions Annastacia Palaszczuk on youth crime laws after losing her daughter.

A teary Ms Marcus said she could not believe the Premier’s statement on youth crime earlier this week where she said “no one is going to stop youth crime.”

“I was so angry because we’ve been, the whole state has been screaming at Ms Palaszczuk to change the laws,” she said.

“I couldn’t believe it’s happened to me, I’m the next one in line.”

Ms Marcus said it was like her daughter’s life didn’t matter.

“She was such a beautiful girl,” she said.

Riverside Christian College principal Michelle Gouge said Kelsie Davies was a part of the school's dance crew. Pic: Riverside Christian College.

Ms Marcus said if the Premier had done something years ago, maybe her daughter would’ve been alive.

“Get some more advice, it can be fixed,” she said.

Ms Marcus said the only thing that got her out of bed was to put an end to this.

“I don’t want this to happen to anybody else, it has to stop now,” she said.

Ms Marcus said she hoped the boy would live a life “worthy of the three that he took.”

“Get out there and do something good for the world, don’t keep taking and taking and hurting,” she said.

Ms Marcus said locking him away for life would not stop the problem.

“Locking him away for life doesn’t stop the problem,” she said.

“If he can do some good, Kelsie’s life’s in vain otherwise.

“Something good’s gotta come of it.”

Oakhurst teenager Kelsie Davies, pictured with her mum Susan Marcus, was killed in a horror crash on Sunday night along with two of her friends.

Ms Kelsie said she does not want Kelsie to be “another statistic.”

Ms Marcus said the police knocked on her door “really late” when they broke the news to her.

“I just thought, ‘no, no that can’t be right,’” Ms Marcus said.

The Premier appeared on breakfast TV on Friday morning assuring Queenslanders change was happening but that youth crime laws will “take time to take effect”.

“We have given the courts the laws....the courts have the opportunity to use those laws,” she said.

“There is a separation of power and I hope that there is a lot of education through the judiciary as well because people do want everything thrown at this to curb incidents of youth crime.

“We also have an inquiry at the moment going right around Queensland, talking to victims of crime and what more we can do to assist them.”

Ms Palaszcuk said social media platforms also need to “clamp down” on youth crime and “copycat behaviour”. “I can’t stop every single incident of youth crime but we can throw everything at it,” she said.

Queensland opposition leader David Crisafulli. Picture: NewsWire / Sarah Marshall

Meanwhile, Mr Crisafulli said Queensland was now officially the car theft capital of the country.

“It is the reality of everyday Queenslanders and what they are going through,” he said.

“It is burning a hole in their wallet in terms of insurance premiums and it is compromising people’s feelings and safety.”

“How did we get here, that’s what Queenslanders are asking. When people pull the blue uniform on you would expect them to have the right tools for their job.

“Police officers are becoming the hunted, young crims make such a mockery of the laws. That is Queensland under the weak leadership we are seeing at the moment.

Mr Crisafulli said he supported legislation amendments that would give media access to youth court matters, following the ‘watering down’ of crime laws under the Labor government.

“Find me a Queenslander who would think that would not be in their interest,” he said.

“When 40 per cent of youth crime offenders are based in Queensland you know something is wrong.”